Installation of Raspberry Pi OS into a microSD card

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CONTENTS HERE DOES NOT NECESSARILY FIT WITH YOUR CONFIGURATION.

Here we install a plain Raspberry Pi OS to a microSD card.

Download and install Raspberry Pi Imager on your PC

Access https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and download Raspberry Pi Imager for your OS of your PC.

Installation to Windows

Double-click imager_x.x.exe to start the installer.

Installation to macOS

Double-click imager_x.x.dmg to start the installer

Drag and drop Raspberry Pi Imager to Applications.

Connect your microSD to your PC

Following is my case using MacBook Pro. How you can connect your microSD to your PC may differ.

Prepare a microSD card

Again, it does not have to be 32GB.

Insert the microSD card to an SD card adapter

Insert the SD card adapter to a memory card reader

Connect the memory card reader to the PC

Install Raspberry Pi OS using the Raspberry Pi Imager

Run Raspberry Pi Imager

CHOOSE OS - Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit)

CHOOSE SD CARD

WRITE

It took about 30 minutes. to finish writing.

Write an empty ssh file on the root directory of the microSD.

Connect the microSD card to your PC again, so that you can see the content of the microSD card.

Create an empty file and rename it ssh (without extension or with extension .txt).

After that, you can eject the microSD card.