How to Easily Write SD cards for use with the Raspberry Pi

Every computer needs an operating system - and the Raspberry Pi is no different. Primarily, the Raspberry Pi boots from an SD card. But how do you write an operating system to that SD card? Well, if you're just starting out - then this is the video for you!
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00:48 - Intro
02:00 - Raspberry Pi Imager - The best all-around best solution preparing Pi SD cards
03:05 - Installing Raspberry Pi Imager on Ubuntu
05:11 - Installing Raspberry Pi Imager on Windows
06:08 - Installing Raspberry Pi Imager on macOS
07:32 - How to use Raspberry Pi Imager to flash Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) onto an SD card
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[@anthonychaple3031]

Been waiting for this video 👍🏻

[@dileepaozi2352]

Nicely explained...

[@texbrew64]

Thank you, Jay. Everything was well explained. Following your dd guide, I now have the current Raspbian OS version based on Debian 11 for my rpi. At first boot all the necessary items were handled for setup, including choice of WiFi network. Post installation reboot delivered a well working Raspbian OS Desktop. Nice. Subscribed to your channel.

[@hjenvild]

Perfect timing! I needed to install raspberry pi os on a new sd card, and I had forgotten about raspberry pi imager.

[@josevl1227]

Excelent !! Really good! Did like the video a lot.

[@diodeskies9087]

Followed the Ubuntu example for RPI Imager but got an error in Software Install. I right clicked the downloaded Imager 1.8.5amd64.deb file > Properties > Permissions tab > checked "Is executable" box. All good now thank you, great video!

[@christopherjackson8457]

Your screen shots show the raspberry pi imager that is the older model. The new version has a cog icon with which to adjust the WiFi and ssh access prior to the write. In my view a superior methods to create the raspberry pi operating system. I use Windows and Mac OS to do it.

[@igrewold]

Thanks J, good tutorial.

[@catupeloco]

I've used win32 disk imager on windows before raspberry pi site has the imager. The advantage is you also have the oportunity to generate an image, the disadvantage is the image is stored as the full sd card size. The solution for that is to use a shrink script on github but it runs on linux so you can do it from rpi

[@peterjansen4826]

Considering that you are in the terminal anyway, the user who copies this could just use wget . He might have to install wget first.

[@PS_Tube]

I had made a USB drive using Rufus. Since then, etcher has never been able to flash. With Rufus, it can be flashed always. Finally, I bit the bullet and created a new partition table on the flash drive (Rufus one) on Linux. Flashed it on etcher, and it worked. But, then I used dd just for testing purpose, turns out it's faster than etcher. Flashed the drive with dd. And I'll never gonna use Rufus again.

[@christopherjackson2157]

I like that sepia/parchment background ur windows have. What's it called? Is it an Ubuntu thing?

[@Charlie8913]

I always use dd to flash an iso. Except when i need to fix my pc then i download the iso on my phone, connect the USB thumb drive with a USB A female to USB C adapter (or for Raspbian a USB C hub with integrated SD card reader) and flash it with Etchdroid. The Raspbian wiki has instructions on how to set up things as the wifi credentials manually without their fancy tool, did that once to a headless raspberry pi. But that's just me, i like the generic way (works with all iso's, KISS principle, ARCH user) and don't want to use special tools when it's just a few commands. For beginners it's for sure great.

[@Keeping_IT_Simple]

you chose a block size of 4M - what are the different options here & why chose this size please?

[@michaelbrauner]

I wonder if you are using kdenlive for video editiing. I consider using it ... . Is it hard to make such nice animations you have inside your videos? Greetings from germany.

[@etienne4403]

Thanks for the DD command. How do you set the user and ssh in that case?

[@paratracker]

What if the Imager does not include the intended SD card as the target device?

[@Kephers7]

Keep getting errors writing to disk. Tried with multiple cards and formatting and reformating and same error over and over :/ Using the Pi Imager 1.7.5. Tried with 64gb and 128gb micro sd cards. Nothing seems to work. After I format disk and try to install, it also wont let the card work again on my windows computer it will always show 'please insert a card' on the pc. So it not only fails to write but breaks the card.... fat32.

[@DodgeHooker641]

Do you have a current video about how to backup the SD card for a raspberry pi using Windows

[@igrewold]

it be same dd command you just do the reverse, J explained discdump file to drive, you do the reverse discdump drive to file, let's suppose drive name is sda dd if=/dev/sda of=sdbackup.iso this is the main idea, test it, maybe using some gui backup software is faster and safer but try it to see if it works or not

[@igrewold]

How to Back Up/Image your SD Card on Linux kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYa8h36efsRraqc

[@amayvlogs8179]

Error to write storage

[@AliensInc.]

If 'dd' seems a bit scary just use 'cp' and copy that ISO to the device for the USB-stick.

[@_den_]

DD.

[@starkfuture1057]

explain how to do the same with a fedora arm image please.