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3Create your own
- 3.3Flashing the SD Card using Windows
- 3.4Flashing the SD card using Mac OS X
- 3.5Flashing the SD Card using Linux (including on a Raspberry Pi!)
7References

Getting Started:

Buying Guide - for advice on buying the Raspberry Pi.

SD Card Setup - for information on how to prepare the SD Card used to boot your Raspberry Pi.

Basic Setup - for help with buying / selecting other hardware and setting it up.

Beginners Guide - you are up and running, now what can you do?

Latest RPi 4 Topics - Recent topics on Raspberry Pi 4 and the Pi OS

Advanced Setup - for more extensive information on setting up.

Trouble Shooting - some things to check if things don't work as expected.

The Raspberry Pi will not start without a properly formatted SD Card, containing the bootloader and a suitable operating system. Many problems with booting the Raspberry Pi are a result of an improperly formatted or corrupted card. Make sure that you insert the card before powering on the Raspberry Pi, and that you shutdown the Raspberry Pi before unplugging the card. If you do have problems booting the Raspberry Pi, see the trouble shooting page first.

You will also need to choose a distribution. Available distributions are shown here; you will need the Raspberry Pi bootloader to launch your distribution, so you need one for the Raspberry Pi and cannot download a PC based distribution and use that. Note that you can have several SD Cards with a separate distribution on each, then power off, swap cards and restart the Raspberry Pi to use that card.

Some Raspberry Pi kits will come with a ready-to-go card with the distribution pre-installed, or these can be bought separately. There is more on this below.

If you don't have a pre-installed card you will need to prepare your own. Make sure you get a reasonable quality card rather than a cheap one. Check the SD Card list if you are not sure. Warning! When you write the Raspberry Pi image to your SD card you will lose all data that was on the card. Official images are available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads.

Note: It is highly recommended that you start with the latest official NOOBS installer: check the Raspberry Pi official website (http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads) for the current version. This makes the process of installing an operating system as easy as copying a few files in a zip archive to your SD card. This contains the reccomended Raspbian distribution, as well as various other distributions, all of which are available as individual images from the downloads page, if you prefer not to use NOOBS.

Buying a preloaded SD card from a reputable supplier means that you can just plug it in and power up your Raspberry Pi; it should then just work. If you don't buy one of these, you will have to create your own using the instructions below

You may need to perform an upgrade of the card once you have got the Raspberry Pi working, as a distribution (usually) is continuously updated and the card may not contain those updates

Compare these for prices, delivery, distribution and card size/class:

Official Raspberry Pi Swag Store

The Pi Hut offers a wide range of SD cards preloaded with either:
- NOOBS.
- Raspbian.
- OpenELEC XBMC.
- PiPlay (formerly PiMame).

ModMyPi Sell high quality SanDisk SD cards pre-loaded with the latest NOOBs.

Public Service Announcement on SD Cards. There have been reports of problems with SD cards purchased from ebay and Amazon. Make sure the SD card you're purchasing is up to date with the latest version of your chosen operating System to avoid any issues.

To create your own SD Card for the Raspberry Pi you will need access to another machine, or a friend with one. You will need to be careful, as you could corrupt the disk on that machine if you do things wrong (although it is not hard to do it right, and NOOBS makes it impossible to go wrong). If you are lucky, you might find a local Raspberry Pi or Linux group who will offer to load your card for you.

You will also need to choose and download a distribution (mentioned above), or use NOOBS, which has all the . Check the Distributions list to make sure that you are getting a distribution that will work with the Raspberry Pi. Note that the distribution must be written to the card using the methods below; the standard file copy method will not work

Using NOOBS

Recently, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a really easy way to set up your SD Card. It's called the New Out Of Box Software (or NOOBS for short) and provides a really easy way to install Raspberry Pi distributions. Be warned, however, that it is a 1 GB download - if you have a limit on what you are allowed to download, follow the instructions below, as the other images are around 500 MB.

Download NOOBS from the raspberrypi.org downloads page
Insert a (4 GB+) SD Card into your computer
- If you want to save space on the SD Card, you can delete some of the images inside the os folder in the NOOBS zip file that you don't want to use.
Format the disk
- Windows
1. Download and install the SD Association's Formatting tool from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_windows/
2. Open the Application you have just installed
3. Set 'FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT' to ON in the Options menu.
4. Make sure you have selected the Drive your SD Card is inserted in
5. Click 'Format'
- Mac
1. Download and install the SD Association's Formatting tools from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_mac/
2. Select 'Overwrite format'
3. Make sure you have selected your SD Card, and not something else
4. Click 'Format'
- Linux
1. Use gparted (or the command-line version parted if you prefer), if you don't have it, install it as you usually would.
2. Format the entire disk as FAT32 (FAT16 will not work! Make sure you select the correct disk!)
Extract the file you downloaded in Step 1
Copy the files you just extracted to your SD Card (see below on flashing your SD card)

Not all monitors work with NOOBS straight away. If your monitor is one of those that doesn't work, press the Number buttons 1-4 until you see what you want.

Default HDMI Mode
HDMI Safe Mode - Use this if Default (1) doesn't work and you cannot see anything
Composite PAL Mode - Use this or 4. if you are using the yellow and black outputs on the opposite side to the HDMI output
Composite NTSC Mode

Using Android Phone

There is an android app which will both download and write SD card images direct on the phone using internal SD card reader, or an external USB OTG reader

This can write NOOBS images on a standard android phone without requiring root access:

Flashing the SD Card using Windows

Using the Win32DiskImager program

Os X Unzip

Download the distribution from the raspberrypi.org downloads page or from a mirror or torrent. Make sure the distribution is for the Raspberry Pi, as others will not work. Usually these are zipped (compressed) files ending in .zip or .gz (something like 'distribution-name.zip').
Extract the image file from the downloaded .zip file, so you

Osx Unzip