![]() ![]() Once you have made a choice on both buttons, you can click Write and the utility will download the file and write it to the SD card, without you having to worry about Linux utility program names, pipes, command line options or anything else. The Choose SD Card button looks for a writeable SD card to use for the destination remember, if your computer has an SD card slot, but there is no card inserted, you won't get anything here. The Choose OS button drops down a list of everything it knows how to install, including all three versions of the Raspberry Pi OS plus Ubuntu, LibreElec and RetroPie. But then, if you are running on a Raspberry Pi that is booted from the SD card, what are you going to use for a destination SD card? Maybe you would have a USB SD card reader? Beats me, but anyway, that's why I didn't try it on a Pi. That makes sense to me, but maybe if you were actually running it on a Raspberry Pi, the simpler command would work. sudo apt install rpi-imager -f imager_1.4_b.If you are old and stubborn, as I am, and you have a Linux system with an SD card slot, you can download the image and then copy it to an SD card, using the pipeline I have given in several previous posts: The download image is less than 500MB, and the installed image is less than 2GB, so an 8GB SD card would be plenty, and even a 4GB card is probably enough (depending on your application). It can serve as a good starting point for building a "headless" web server (or any other type of server-only system), or as a base to build some other custom system. It includes the basic operating system, command interpreter(s) and various server utilities. Raspberry Pi OS Lite: The is the "minimalist" version, with a Command Line Interface (CLI) only, no GUI. ![]() The download image is nearly 3GB, and the installed image is more than 8GB, so you will need at least a 16GB SD card. The idea here is the reverse of the basic desktop – you use the Recommended Software utility to remove the packages that you don't need. That means Libre Office, programming languages, more IDEs than you can shake a stick at, Mathematica, NodeRed, Scratch (1, 2 and 3), Sonic Pi, SmartSim, the Sense HAT emulator, and so much other stuff that I can't even begin to list it all here. It has everything the basic desktop version has, of course, and it also includes everything from the Recommended Software list. Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software: This is the "whole shebang" version. ![]() The download image is about 1.2GB, and the installed image is about 4GB, so you will need at least an 8GB SD card. The idea with this one is that after installing it, you use the "Recommended Software" utility (or the apt package manager) to install only the additional utilities and applications that you need. It includes the Pixel desktop Graphical User Interface some basic software, utilities and applications that you would expect with a Linux system, such as a web browser (Chromium), VLC media player, text editor, terminal emulator, and such but none of the Raspberry Pi-specific educational and programming utilitites.
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