RPi Noob Guide to the Pi image

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Page in development so far just layout

The intention of this page is to provide the detail of making a working SD card for a RaspberryPi keeping instructions and explanations jargon free as much as posible and explaining any neccessary jargon as it appears.


Getting an image

What is an image.

An image is a file you download that contains the bare minimum to setup a RaspberryPi SD card. The SD card is that bit of plastic you can put in your camera to store pictures and it is more than capable of acting as the primary disk for your RaspberryPi

The absolute minimum to load a Wheezy image is a 2 Gig (Gigabyte) SD card (there are images that will fit on a 1 Gig but not Wheezy) but you will not have much space so I reccomend a 4 Gig and as a noob have two if you can.

You can move to bigger ones later I started with a 2 Gig I extracted from an old camera and a 4 Gig I scrounged from an old MP3 player

If you have a camera that takes SD cards use the cameras format option its quick and usually works.

Ok most of this page will work around the Wheezy images but should work for any image but your going to need to get an image

The checksum and using it

Image writers

Win32DiskImage

Ubuntu ImageWriter

Linux dd

config.txt

Cable connections

Power to the RPi

Ethernet

USB 1 & 2

HDMI

Composite

Sound

The SD Card slot

Hey look LED's

The tidy shutdown

Backup your work

Category:RaspberryPi