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=== How to add Raspberry Operating System to a card yourself === | === How to add Raspberry Operating System to a card yourself === | ||
*Download from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. | *Decide whether you want | ||
**the full version of the operating system that supports a graphical user interface (choose this if you want to connect a TV or other monitor to your Raspberry Pi), | |||
**or the ''lite'' version of the operating system that only supports SSH or terminal mode (choose this if you will operate headless - explained at end of this article) | |||
*Download the latest version of the Raspberry Pi operating system you have selected from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. | |||
*That imager is run on any device, say your pc, and then you select '''write''' to save it onto the micro-SD card (don't forget this overwrites anything already on the card). | *That imager is run on any device, say your pc, and then you select '''write''' to save it onto the micro-SD card (don't forget this overwrites anything already on the card). | ||
*This should work without a need to format the card first, (but if you do need to format it, do so using a SD card formatter downloaded from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html, not | *This should work without a need to format the card first, (but if you do need to format it, do so using a SD card formatter downloaded from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html, '''not''' for example Windows format tool). | ||
*After this image has been stored it will have created two partitions on the micro-SD card (one the boot partition is a FAT partition that can be accessed by Windows, | *After this image has been stored it will have created two (or three) partitions on the micro-SD card (one the boot partition is a FAT partition that can be accessed by Windows, the larger Linux partition is invisible to Windows, the optional third partition uses up any space left on a larger micro-SD card and appears as "data" under "media" in the Linux file structure). | ||
=== Is the operating system obsolete or up to date?=== | === Is the operating system obsolete or up to date?=== | ||