Using OS X to validate a Raspbian image and write it to an SD card

If you are a Mac user, the process will be a little different from the Windows recipe, but still not too difficult. To do it, we'll leverage OS X's built-in *nix system tools.

Note

Mac OS X used to have a lot of options for easy GUI image writers, but many of them were not updated over time. After Yosemite 10.10.5, the Raspberry Pi community recommends using command-line tools. Fortunately, it is a pretty easy process.

How to do it...

The process for validating and copying a NOOBs installation on OS X is fairly straightforward:

  1. Open a Terminal window in OS X.
  2. Next, run shasum against the downloaded ZIP file to validate the signature:
    $ shasum ~/Downloads/2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie.zip ...

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