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Raspberry Pi: operating system install - how to

  • Oct 03, 2025
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To install an operating system on your Raspberry Pi, are just a few steps are required. You read in this practice tip on how to do this.

Raspberry Pi: how to install an operating system

  1. First download Raspbian, the official OS for the Raspberry Pi from the official site down.
  2. Connect during the download, the keyboard and the Display to the Raspberry Pi but do not connect it to the mains supply.
  3. You unpack after a successful Download the ZIP file and drag the IMG file to a memory card, which you have connected to the PC.
  4. Once the copy process is complete, insert the memory card into the Slot on the Raspberry Pi. After that, you can connect it to the mains.
  5. First of all, you need to expand the file system. Simply press the [Enter] key. After you see the success message, confirm again with [Enter].
  6. You navigate the next step is for the fourth entry, and then select "Change locale" to change the time zone, and language.
  7. With the spacebar, then highlight the entries "de_DE ISO-8859-1", "de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 and de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15. With "Tab" to jump backwards and can then confirm with [Enter].
  8. In the next step, press the arrow buttons to move the entry to " en_us.UTF-8 UTF-8", and then press the [Enter] key.
Raspberry Pi: Operating System

Further steps: the operating system on the Raspberry Pi install

  1. Wait briefly, then select "Change Timezone". There you can select "Europe" > "Berlin".
  2. Now you need to change the keyboard Layout by selecting "Change Keyboard Layout".
  3. Here you can select the keyboard out, which corresponds to your. If you are uncertain, you should not change this setting.
  4. Alternatively, you can select "Other" and "German", so you can use the German keyboard. The next two steps confirm with [Enter].
  5. In the main menu, then navigate to "Advanced Options" and then "Hostname". Here you give the Raspberry Pi a name that appears in the network.
  6. After that, you enter from the main menu in the "Advanced Options" > "Memory Split". Set 32 MB of memory.
  7. Back in the main menu, press the [Tab] key to go to then click "Finish". You press there, then two Times the [Enter] key to start the Raspberry Pi new.
  8. After a successful reboot, log on with user "Raspberry" and password "pi" to the System. With "passwd" you can change the password. Finally, search with "apt-get update" for available Updates and install them.

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