On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 19:38:00 +1300
nospam.Dan.Clough@f1.n770.z1405.fidonet.org (Dan Clough) wrote:

> -=> fugee ohu wrote to Tauno Voipio <=-
>
>  fo> Should I be able to setup the sd card on linux? I've been using
>  fo> gparted on linux to setup the sd card
>
> Putting Raspian on an SD card in Linux is very simple.  Like this:
>
> Either as root, or using sudo:
>
> dd bs=4M if=raspian_file.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
>
> That's all there is to it.  Will take a few minutes to finish.
>
> Obviously, use the correct filename where I wrote
> 'raspian_file.img' there above, and the 'mmcblk0' is *usually* the
> correct name of the SD card.
>
> After that just put the SD in the Pi, and boot it up.  Done.
>
Don't forget to expand the second partition to use all of the card (or
create a separate partition to use the space) if raspbian doesn't do it
automatically (I've had fresh installations where I had to use the
option in raspi-config, and others where it happened automatically -
I'm not sure what the difference was that caused this behaviour).

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