You Have a Raspberry Pi. Now What? - Adventures in Raspberry Pi - page 8

FIGURE 1-4 Formatting an SD Card using the SD Formatter application

Making It Easy with NOOBS
With your SD card formatted, you're ready to copy the Raspbian software onto it. The
N ew O ut O f B ox S oftware (NOOBS) produced by the Raspberry Pi Foundation allows
you to copy the files you need straight onto the SD card like you would do with photo
or document files. It gives you the option of selecting which operating system you
want to install, and even provides recovery should you accidentally delete all your soft-
ware files.

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All the projects in this topic are designed to run using the Raspbian OS included
in the NOOBS software. I recommend ensuring that you use the latest version
of NOOBS before starting any projects in this topic, otherwise you may have
difficulty getting some of the projects to work.

First, you need to download NOOBS onto a desktop or laptop computer with an SD
card reader. After you download the software, you will save it to an SD card for use
with your Raspberry Pi. The following steps walk you through the process:

1. Navigate to the Raspberry Pi website at www.raspberrypi.org and click the
Downloads tab at the top of the page. The New Out of Box Software that you are
want to download is at the top of the page. Click the link to select the latest
NOOBS .zip file.

The download file is a compressed .zip file. Save the compressed file to your
desktop or laptop computer, and then extract the files by right-clicking on the
file and selecting the Extract All option (on a Microsoft Windows computer).
You will then be given the option to extract the files to a directory or folder of
your choice so that you will easily be able to find after the extraction is complete,
as shown in Figure 1-5.