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As said before, a number of operating systems can be installed on your Pi, even Windows. I leave it to you to read, on-line, how to install the operating system you choose, normally the instructions will be found from where you download the system you have selected. | As said before, a number of operating systems can be installed on your Pi, even Windows. I leave it to you to read, on-line, how to install the operating system you choose, normally the instructions will be found from where you download the system you have selected. | ||
If you have a micro-SD card pre-installed with an operating system, you are ready to go! | If you have a micro-SD card pre-installed with an operating system, you are ready to go, but you might find yourself using obsolete software! | ||
If you have a micro-SD card pre-installed with NOOBS, as described above, the first boot will install the operating system. By default, it will be the latest Raspbian OS when the card was manufactured | If you have a micro-SD card pre-installed with NOOBS, as described above, the first boot will install the operating system. By default, it will be the latest Raspbian OS when the card was manufactured: | ||
*Wheezy (7) released in 2013 | |||
*Jessie (8) dating from 2015 | |||
*Stretch (9) released in 2017 | |||
*Buster (10) available from 2019 | |||
*Bullseye(11) under test in 2020 | |||
If you want to install Raspbian, and it is not pre-installed, download 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 the Windows format tool). After this image has been stored it will have created two partitions (one the boot partition can be accessed by Windows, but the larger partition is invisible to Windows). | Be aware that NOOBS might install an obsolete version, as described in Micro-SD card section later it might be better to download/install latest instead of using NOOBS as described below: | ||
*If you want to install Raspbian, and it is not pre-installed, download 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 the Windows format tool). | |||
*After this image has been stored it will have created two partitions (one the boot partition is a FAT partition that can be accessed by Windows, but the larger Linux partition is invisible to Windows). | |||
I said above obsolete software, by that I mean that each package it includes (e.g. Libre Office) and each package you add (e.g. PHP) will also be an obsolete versions. In the worst case scenario, an attempt to install a package might give an error message that the relevant Raspberry Pi repository is archived and the installation has failed. | |||
== Pre-configuring the Pi for headless operation == | == Pre-configuring the Pi for headless operation == | ||
