User Manual

The SD card contains the Raspberry Pi’s operang system (the OS is the soware that makes it work,
like Windows on a PC or OSX on a Mac). This is very dierent from most computers and it is what many
people nd the most daunng part of seng up their Raspberry Pi. It is actually very straighorward—
just dierent!
The following instrucons are for Windows users. Linux and Mac users can nd instrucons at
www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
1. Download the Raspberry Pi operating system
The recommended OS is called Raspbian. Download it here:
hp://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/raspbian/2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian/2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip
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a) Right click on the le and choose “Extract all”.
b) Follow the instrucons—you will end up with a le ending in .img
This .img le can only be wrien to your SD card by special disk imaging soware, so…
3. Download the Win32DiskImager software
a) Download win32diskimager-binary.zip (currently version 0.6) from:
hps://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download
b) Unzip it in the same way you did the Raspbian .zip le
c) You now have a new folder called win32diskimager-binary
You are now ready to write the Raspbian image to your SD card.
4. Writing Raspbian to the SD card
a) Plug your SD card into your PC
b) In the folder you made in step 3(b), run the le named Win32DiskImager.exe
(in Windows Vista, 7 and 8 we recommend that you right-click this le and choose “Run as
administrator”). You will see something like this:
c) If the SD card (Device) you are using isn’t found automacally then click on the drop down box
and select it
Preparing your SD card for the Raspberry Pi
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