OCR Raspberry Pi Getting Started Tutorials
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Preparing the Raspberry Pi
Before you can connect and power up the Raspberry Pi you will have to create a
working operating system. In order to install the operating system you will need
a blank SD card. It is recommended that the SD is at least 4 GB in size. You can
also use a larger SD card if you intend to store a lot of data. If you will be using a
pre-loaded SD card then you can skip over this tutorial.
Installing Raspberry Pi using Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
You can download an operating system from the official Raspberry Pi website
www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
- the recommended operating system is
Raspbian “wheezy”.
If you are using Microsoft Windows you will need to save your downloaded
operating system image to a folder and extract the contents. This will create a
file that ends with a ‘
xxxx.img
’ file extension. The file name may vary depending
on which version is available at the time. The main point is that you have a file
ending in ‘img’.
In order to write this image (.img) file to the SD card you will need a program to
do this. Download the following program called ‘Win32 Disk Imager’ and extract
it. The download can be found by visiting
www.raspberryshake.com/preparing-
raspberry-pi
and clicking the ‘Download here’ link.
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Warning!
When you write the Raspberry Pi image to your SD
card you will lose all of the data that was on the card so make
sure you save anything you want to keep somewhere else!
