Raspberry pi preparing your sd card

Instructions

If you did not order a preloaded RPi SD card, read this page on instructions for prepairing a RPi SD Card.

Images

• download through: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
• distribution info: http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions

OS Specific Setup Tutorials and Apps

• mac: RPi-sd card builder or RasPiWrite
• win: instructions
• linux: instructions
• cross: BerryBoot

From the Command Line OS X

• run diskutil list to list the disks ** you want to identify the disk not the partition of your SD Card i.e. disk2 not disk2s1
• run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<disk# from diskutil>
• run sudo dd bs=1m if=<your image file>.img of=/dev/<disk# from diskutil> Note:this will take a few minutes