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=== How to add Raspberry Operating System to a card yourself ===
*Decide whether you want
*Download from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. ▼
**the full version of the operating system that supports a graphical user interface (choose this if you want to connect a TV or other monitor to your Raspberry Pi),
**or the ''lite'' version of the operating system that only supports SSH or terminal mode (choose this if you will operate headless - explained at end of this article)
▲*Download the latest version of the Raspberry Pi operating system you have selected from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads.
*That imager is run on any device, say your pc, and then you select '''write''' to save it onto the micro-SD card (don't forget this overwrites anything already on the card).
*This should work without a need to format the card first, (but if you do need to format it, do so using a SD card formatter downloaded from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html, '''not'''
*After this image has been stored it will have created two (or three) partitions on the micro-SD card (one the boot partition is a FAT partition that can be accessed by Windows,
=== Is the operating system obsolete or up to date?===
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