User Guide

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Installing Raspbian
To install Raspbian, you need to connect a keyboard, mouse,
and display to your Pi.
The current version of NOOBS only comes with the files that you
need to install Raspbian. If you want to install other operating
systems using NOOBS, connect your Pi to your network using an
Ethernet cable.
First, ensure the Pi is completely off and unplugged, and then
insert the SD card into the Pi’s memory card socket. Reconnect
the power to your Pi.
The Pi will start and load the NOOBS tool. When everything is
ready, you should see a window similar to Figure 1.
Figure 1. NOOBS on a Raspberry Pi
The window shows a list of the operating systems that you can
install. The list is different depending on whether your Pi can
connect to the Internet or not.
After installing an OS, if you put the SD card back into a Windows
PC then the card appears to have shrunk in capacity. Windows
cannot understand the Linux disk partitions. To wipe the card,
use the command-line tool diskpart to destroy the partitions and
create a new “primary” partition using all of the available space.