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Writing Images for Raspberry Pi SD Cards (mac os)
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pi-instructions.md
  1. Insert SD card to mac
  2. In disk utility, or from command line, unmount the SD card disk
  3. Format the disk as FAT
  4. Install ddrescue, a better version of dd: brew install ddrescue
  5. Locate the raw disk that is used for the SD card, on my laptop, it's /dev/rdisk2
  6. Write your boot image to the SD card: sudo ddrescue -v --force boot-image-of-choice.img /dev/rdisk2
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