Sunday, June 2, 2013

How To Prepare An SD Card For A Raspberry Pi (This tutorial is for Windows only.)

1. Get an SD card that's at least 4 gigabytes.

2. Insert SD card into SD card reader

3.  Navigate To http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

4. To Begin, select Rasbian Wheezy and click direct download

5. A few hours later, after the .img file downloads, install and extract Win32DiskImager http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/?source=directory

6. Launch Win32DiskImager and browse for the .img file and find the letter drive that the SD card is in

7. Wait for Win32DiskImager to finish then pop it into your Pi and set it up

Note: There is this wondrous book that all Pi beginners should have: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Raspberry-Pi-Make/dp/1449344216