Getting your SD Card ready
Your Pi kit will typically include an SD Card. The Pi A and the Pi B use a standard-sized SD Card, and the Pi A+, B+, and Model 2-B use a Micro SD Card. Most of these SD Cards provided in kits are preconfigured with NOOBS. Once initialized, Raspbian or another optional operating system will install from an image already on the SD Card or from a network connection.
The minimum recommended SD Card size for the current version of Raspbian (February 2015 Debian 7:7.6 Wheezy) is 4 GB. This version results in a Raspbian install limited to a 2.7 GB partition. Most Pi kits come with a minimum SD Card size of 8 GB, allowing either multiple OS installations or a very large Raspbian partition.
The latest revision (1.4.0) of the new ...
Get Raspberry Pi Essentials now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
