Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Creating the SD card in Macintosh OS X
OS X includes everything you need to create the SD card out of the box. We will use a util-
ity called dd:
1. Double-click the Raspbian image ZIP file. It will automatically extract into the
same place as the ZIP file.
2. Insert the SD card into your computer's SD card reader.
3. Open the terminal application (located in the
Applications
|
Utilities
folder).
4. Find the name of your SD card by typing
diskutil list
.
5. Unmount your SD card by typing
disktuil umountdisk <disk>
, that is,
/dev/disk2
.
6. Copy the OS image from your hard drive to the SD card by typing
dd if=/
path/to/os/image.img of=<disk>
where
<disk>
is
/dev/disk2
,
and
path/to/os/image.img
is the place to which you saved the image.
