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How to Install Raspbian OS

What is RASPBIAN OS

How to Install Raspbian OS

How to Install Raspbian OS is a Debian-based Operating System for Raspberry Pi. Since 2015, it has been officially provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as the primary operating system for the Raspberry Pi family of compact single-board computers. Raspberry Pi OS is highly optimized for the Raspberry Pi line of compact single-board computers with ARM CPUs. It runs on every Raspberry Pi except the Pico microcontroller. The most important difference of Raspbian is that it is built with Hard Floating Point support, which drastically improves performance. Packages tend to be provided as source, and can be compiled with any compiler, in this case each package (apparently currently in the region of 35000), has had to build especially for the Raspberry Pi using a hard float compiler (and some other optimizations).

Install and Setup Raspbian on PC

  1. First, download the ISO, the image of the Raspbian OS that you will install. This can be downloaded from here or as a torrent from here.
  2. Next you’ll need to create a bootable USB stick. On Windows a good program for creating a bootable USB stick is called Rufus, which is downloaded from here.
  3. Take a USB stick, with a size of 2GB or larger and run the downloaded Rufus .exe file. In Rufus, click on the dropdown menu for Device to select the USB stick. Next, click on the icon showing an image of a CD/DVD tray, which is about three quarters of the way down the box, next to ‘Create a bootable disk using’, and select the Raspbian ISO file you just downloaded. Then click Start.How to Install Raspbian OS
  4. The process will take some time. Once the bootable disk has been created, take the USB stick and insert it into the PC you want to install Raspbian on. Start/restart this PC, and you’ll be presented with the menu below. There are several options, including running the OS without installing it, with the option to store files between between runs. However in this instance you want to select ‘Graphical Install’ and hit ‘Enter’.

How to Install Raspbian OS

5. Choose your language from the drop down menu, using the arrow keys or mouse cursor to select your language of choice, then hit ‘Continue’.

How to Install Raspbian OS

 

6. There are several options. In this instance I’m choosing ‘Guided – entire disk’. This will wipe the hard drive, so only select this option if there is nothing on the hard disk you want to keep.

How to Install Raspbian OS

 

7. Choose the drive you wish to install it on — in this instance Msft Virtual Disk. Next select ‘All files in one partition’ and hit ‘Continue’.

How to Install Raspbian OS

8. Now wait some time while the system installs.

9. The next prompt will ask you whether you want to install the GRUB boot loader on the hard disk. Hit ‘Yes’, then ‘Continue’.

How to Install Raspbian OS

10. Next you need to confirm which drive you wish to install the GRUB boot loader on. If the computer only has a single, unpartitioned drive, you should choose the option beginning with ‘/dev/sda’.

11. The installation is now complete. Remove the USB stick from the drive and hit ‘Continue’ to reboot the machine.

How to Install Raspbian OS

12. That should be it. The machine should reboot to the desktop shown below. When I installed Raspbian on an old Acer Aspire Timeline 1830T laptop, with an Intel Core i3 processor, it worked pretty much perfectly, with smooth video playback on YouTube, working sound and no network connectivity issues. Click the Raspberry icon in the top left corner to begin exploring the many different programs. I hope you enjoy your time with Raspbian.

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