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Revision as of 09:30, 4 March 2012
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Easyiest way
Download and run the PiCard tool. It will guide you through the progress.
Easy way
Copying the image to an SD Card on Windows
- Extract the image file debian6-17-02-2012.img from the debian6-17-02-2012 directory in the debian6-17-02-2012.zip
- Insert the SD card into your SD card reader and check what drive letter it was assigned.
- Download the Win32DiskImager utility. The download links are on the right hand side of the page, you want the binary zip.
- Extract the zip file and run the Win32DiskImager utility.
- Select the debian6-17-02-2012.img image file you extracted earlier
- Select the drive letter of the SD card in the device box. Be careful to select the correct drive.
- Click Write and wait for the write to complete.
- Exit the imager and eject the SD card.
- Insert the card in the Raspberry Pi, power it on, and it should boot up. Have fun!
Copying an image to the SD Card in Max OS
- Download the image from a mirror or torrent
- Verify if the the hash key is the same (optional), in the terminal run:
- shasum ~/Downloads/debian6-17-02-2012.zip
- Extract the image, just double click the zip, it will extract automatically
- From the terminal run df -h
- Connect the sdcard reader with the sdcard inside
- Run df -h again and look for the new device that wasn't listed last time. Record the filesystem name of the device, e.g. /dev/disk1s1
- Open disk utility and unmount the partition of the sdcard (do not eject it, or you have to reconnect it)
- In the terminal write the image to the card with this command, making sure you replace "/dev/disk1" with the right device name from before, but missing out the final "s1".
- dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/debian6-17-02-2012/debian6-17-02-2012.img of=/dev/disk1
- After the dd comand finishes go to disk utility and eject the sdcard
- Insert it in the raspberry pi, and have fun
Copying an image to the SD Card in Linux
- Download the image from a mirror or torrent
- Verify if the the hash key is the same (optional), in the terminal run:
- shasum ~/debian6-17-02-2012.zip
- Extract the image, with
- unzip ~/debian6-17-02-2012.zip
- Connect the sdcard reader with the sdcard inside
- Check the name of the device that the SD card was mounted as by running: dmesg | tail, it will be something like "/dev/sdc"
- In the terminal write the image to the card with this command, making sure you replace "/dev/sdc" with the right device name.
- dd bs=1M if=~/debian6-17-02-2012/debian6-17-02-2012.img of=/dev/sdc
- Insert it in the raspberry pi, and have fun
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