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    Installing operating system images on Linux -... https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/in...

    DOCUMENTATION > INSTALLATION > INSTALLING-IMAGES > LINUX

    INSTALLING OPERATING SYSTEM IMAGES ON


    LINUX

    Please note that the use of the dd tool can overwrite any partition of your
    machine. If you specify the wrong device in the instructions below, you could delete
    your primary Linux partition. Please be careful.

    DISCOVERING THE SD CARD MOUNTPOINT AND UNMOUNTING IT

    Run df -h to see what devices are currently mounted.

    If your computer has a slot for SD cards, insert the card. If not, insert the card
    into an SD card reader, then connect the reader to your computer.

    Run df -h again. The new device that has appeared is your SD card. If no
    device appears, then your system is not automounting devices. In this case,
    you will need to search for the device name using another method. The
    dmesg | tail command will display the most recent system messages,

    which should contain information on the naming of the SD card device. The
    naming of the device will follow the format described in the next paragraph.
    Note that if the SD card was not automounted, you do not need to unmount
    later.

    The left column of the results from df -h command gives the device
    name of your SD card. It will be listed as something like /dev/mmcblk0p1
    or /dev/sdX1 , where X is a lower case letter indicating the device. The last
    part ( p1 or 1 respectively) is the partition number. You want to write to
    the whole SD card, not just one partition. You therefore need to remove that

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    /dev/sdX as the device name for the whole SD card. Note that the SD card

    can show up more than once in the output of df . It will do this if you have
    previously written a Raspberry Pi image to this SD card, because the
    Raspberry Pi SD images have more than one partition.

    Now you have noted the device name, you need to unmount it so that files
    can't be read or written to the SD card while you are copying over the SD
    image.

    Run umount /dev/sdX1 , replacing sdX1 with whatever your SD card's


    device name is (including the partition number).

    If your SD card shows up more than once in the output of df because it


    has multiple partitions on the SD card. You should unmount all of these
    partitions.

    COPYING THE IMAGE TO THE SD CARD

    In a terminal window, write the image to the card with the command below,
    making sure you replace the input file if= argument with the path to your
    .img file, and the /dev/sdX in the output file of= argument with the

    correct device name. This is very important, as you will lose all data on the
    hard drive if you provide the wrong device name. Make sure the device name
    is the name of the whole SD card as described above, not just a partition of it.
    For example: sdd , not sdds1 or sddp1 , and mmcblk0 , not
    mmcblk0p1 .

    dd bs=4M if=2017-02-16-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/sdX

    Please note that block size set to 4M will work most of the time. If not,
    please try 1M , although this will take considerably longer.

    Also note that if you are not logged in as root you will need to prefix this with
    sudo .

    COPYING A ZIPPED IMAGE TO THE SD CARD

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    command, which avoids any issues that might occur when the unzipped image is
    larger than 4GB. This can happen on certain filesystems that do not support files
    larger than 4GB (e.g. FAT), although it should be noted that most Linux
    installsations do not use FAT and therefore do not have this limitation.

    The following command unzips the zip file (replace 2017-02-16-raspbian-jessie.zip


    with the appropriate zip filename), and pipes the output directly to the dd
    command. This in turn copies it to the SD card, as described in the previous
    section.

    unzip -p 2017-02-16-raspbian-jessie.zip | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX


    bs=4096

    CHECKING THE IMAGE COPY PROGRESS

    By default, the dd command does not give any information about its
    progress and so may appear to have frozen. It can take more than five
    minutes to finish writing to the card. If your card reader has an LED, it may
    blink during the write process.

    To see the progress of the copy operation, you can run the dd command with
    the status option.

    dd bs=4M if=2017-03-02-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/sdd


    status=progress

    If you are using an older version of dd , the status option may not be
    available. You may be able to use the dcfldd command instead, which will
    give a progress report about how much has been written.

    CHECKING IF THE IMAGE WAS CORRECTLY WRITTEN TO THE SD


    CARD

    After dd has finished copying, you can check what has been written to the
    SD card by dd -ing from the card back to another image on your hard disk;
    truncating the new image to the same size as the original; and then running
    diff (or md5sum ) on those two images.

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    the whole card. We must therefore truncate the new image to the size of the
    original image. Make sure you replace the input file if= argument with the
    correct device name. diff should report that the files are identical.

    dd bs=4M if=/dev/sdX of=from-sd-card.img


    truncate --reference 2017-03-02-raspbian-jessie.img from-sd-
    card.img
    diff -s from-sd-card.img 2017-03-02-raspbian-jessie.img

    Run sync . This will ensure the write cache is flushed and that it is safe to
    unmount your SD card.

    Remove the SD card from the card reader.

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