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Creating a bootable SD card for the Raspberry Pi

This README will show you how to create a bootable SD card for your Raspberry Pi.

  1. Download the wheezy image from the Raspberry download page here.

  2. Take your SD card and plug it in to your computer.

  3. Note down the disk number of your SD card. On my Mac it was /dev/disk2 but yours might be different.

** This is very important. You could wipe out your hard drive if you make a mistake here **

  1. Go to you terminal, and type the following lines of code. This will start to partition disk2 (the SD card). The name of the disk may vary depending on you computer.
sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 1 MBR "Free Space" "%noformat%" 100%
  1. Run the following lines of code in your terminal. It will copy your image to your SD card. Note that the disk name is rdisk instead of disk.
sudo dd bs=1m if=/Users/(username)/Downloads/2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img  of=/dev/rdisk2
  1. Eject the SD card. You can use Finder, or can run the command here in your terminal:
sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdisk2
  1. Plug in the SD card into your Raspberry Pi.

    Username: pi Password: raspberry

  2. Keep in mind that the spelling is "raspberry", with a p. I spent hours trying to figure out why this whole process didn't work.

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