212 THE OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI BEGINNER'S GUIDE
T
he New Out Of the Box Software (NOOBS) is designed to make it as easy as possible
to install and set up operating systems on your Raspberry Pi. You can buy microSD
cards with NOOBS pre-installed on them from all good Raspberry Pi retailers, or you
can use the following instructions to install them to your own microSD card.Downloading NOOBS
To install NOOBS onto a new blank or previously used microSD card, you’ll first need to
download it from the Raspberry Pi website. On a computer with a microSD card reader,
or a full-size SD card reader and a microSD card adapter, open the web browser and type
rpf.io/downloads into its address bar. From the page that loads, click NOOBS – marked with a
raspberry icon – then click ‘Download ZIP’ under ‘NOOBS Offline and network install’.Installing
NOOBS to
a microSD
card
Appendix A
WARNING!
If you’ve purchased a microSD card with NOOBS already pre-installed, you don’t need to
do anything else other than plug it into your Raspberry Pi. These instructions are for blank
microSD cards, or for cards you want to restore back to a factory-fresh condition. Carrying out
these instructions on a microSD card with files on it will lose those files, so make sure you’ve
backed things up first!