Install NOOBS on an SD card

Once you've downloaded the NOOBS zip file, you'll need to copy the contents to a formatted SD card on your computer.

• Format an SD card which is 8GB or larger as FAT32. See the instructions given below.
• Download and extract the files from the NOOBS zip file.
• Copy the extracted files onto the SD card that you just formatted, so that this file is at the root directory of the SD card.

• On first boot, the "RECOVERY" FAT partition will be automatically resized to a minimum, and a list of OSes that are available to install will be displayed.

• Format an SD card

Prepare installation SD-Card

All we have to do is to create a single blank FAT32 partition on SD-Card and format it.

Hint: Because you can't do that with mounted devices, you need to unmount the device first

• before inserting SD-Card, list available disks with:

fdisk -l

• now insert the SD-Card and, again do:

fdisk -l

• compare the two listings and you will find your SD-Card
• because you can't reformat with mounted devices, you need to unmount the device first

For example: umount /dev/sdd1

• open the desired memory device

for example

fdisk /dev/sdd

The above command takes you into the fdisk utility that allows you to manipulate (and destroy!) your SD card. It must be run as root, or using sudo.

• list your partitions (if any) with p command
• all partitions on that card need to be deleted with d command
• create a single new partition with n command and use default settings
• change partition type to b (W95 FAT32) with t command
• set bootable flag with a command
• check with p command afterwards - you should see something like

• write changed partition settings back to the SD-Card with w command and fdisk will exit
• when you get back to the prompt format the SD-Card

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdd1

Be careful to format the partition and not the device.

• Download the NOOBS Software from:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads