Setting up a Raspberry Pi is surprisingly easy

Setting up a Raspberry Pi turned out to be much easier than expected.

The post walks through:

• Downloading Minibian
• Verifying checksums
• Extracting the image
• Writing the image to an SD card using dd
• Booting the Raspberry Pi

Example commands:

sha1sum 2015-11-12-jessie-minibian.tar.gz
umount /dev/mmcblk0p2
dd bs=4M if=~/2015-11-12-jessie-minibian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
sync

Once completed the SD card can be inserted into the Raspberry Pi and booted.