Rasbian/NOOBS Install

Requirements:

• Raspberry Pi
• Power Supply (2.5 amp recommended)
• Micro SD Card (8GB min.)
• Raspberry Pi Zero, Zero W, A+, B+, Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3, 3B+ and Raspberry Pi 4 you’ll need a micro SD card.  Others use a standard size SD Card.
• Keyboard/Mouse
• I use the following for simplicity as it provides a wireless keyboard and mouse combo.

Download

Use an SD card with a minimum capacity of 8GB.

1. Using a computer with an SD card reader, visit the Downloads page.
2. Click on NOOBS, then click on the Download ZIP button under ‘NOOBS (offline and network install)’, and select a folder to save it to.
3. Extract the files from the zip.

Format your SD card

It is best to format your SD card before copying the NOOBS files onto it. To do this:

1. Visit the SD Association’s website and download SD Formatter 4.0 for either Windows or Mac.
2. Follow the instructions to install the software.
3. Insert your SD card into the computer or laptop’s SD card reader and make a note of the drive letter allocated to it, e.g. G:/
4. In SD Formatter, select the drive letter for your SD card and format it.

Drag and drop NOOBS files

1. Once your SD card has been formatted, drag all the files in the extracted NOOBS folder and drop them onto the SD card drive.
2. The necessary files will then be transferred to your SD card.
3. When this process has finished, safely remove the SD card and insert it into your Raspberry Pi.

First boot

1. Plugin your keyboard, mouse, and monitor cables.
2. Now plug the USB power cable into your Raspberry Pi.
3. Your Raspberry Pi will boot, and a window will appear with a list of different operating systems that you can install. 
•  Tick the box next to Raspbian and click on Install.
4. Raspbian will then run through its installation process. Note that this can take a while.
5. When the install process has completed, the Raspberry Pi configuration menu (raspi-config) will load. Here you are able to set the time and date for your region, enable a Raspberry Pi camera board, or even create users. You can exit this menu by using Tab on your keyboard to move to Finish.

Logging in and accessing the graphical user interface

The default login for Raspbian is username pi with the password raspberry. Note that you will not see any writing appear when you type the password. This is a security feature in Linux.