Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4

I decided to start playing with the Raspberry Pi, and this post is here to summarize the steps I went through to set it up.

Setting up the OS

Some packages come equipped with a micro SD card already burned with an image. I thought it would be more interesting to do that setp myself. It’s actually pretty simple as all you need to do, besides buying a SD card, is install etcher, then follow the steps:

• you can point etcher directly to the URL of the image you are trying to burn. In this case, I used Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software.
• select the location of your micro SD card.

I actually first re-formatted the micro SD card to the FAT format using Disk Utility. But I’m not even sure this was needed as etcher might very well take care of that step.