Writing Raspberry Pi to an SD card on OS X
Step 0 - Download Raspbian OS
The first thing we need to do is download Raspbian OS.
Once the disk image has been loaded, we'll want to open up Applications/Utilities/Terminal
Step 1
Before adding your SD card, first take notice of which disk volumes are mounted.
df -h
Now add your SD card and see if you can identify the card
df -h
In my case, the SD card is /dev/disk2s1
Step 2
The next step is to unmount the SD Card.
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
Next step is to figure out the raw disk name of the card by adding r
and removing s1
.
/dev/rdisk2
Step 3
Now use the Unix utility dd to copy the image bit-by-bit to the SD card
# Run as root and copy the input file to the output file
sudo dd bs=1m if=~/path/to/raspbian.img of=/dev/rdisk2
The final step is to just wait.