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Formatting SD Card and load a Raspbian OS in Mac OSX for Raspberry PI
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Format and Load Raspbian OS to SD Card using MacOS for Raspberry Pi

  1. Unmount the SD Card and DO NOT EJECT.
diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
  1. On your terminal, type diskutil list. Find the disk number of your SD Card. For example disk2. Example
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *7.9 GB     disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 RASPBIAN                7.9 GB     disk2s1
  1. Search your Raspberry OS Image file (ex: 2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.img) and type the following command to load the OS to your SD Card. Please wait as this may take some time to finish. Yeah, no progress bar!:
sudo dd bs=1m if=2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.img of=/dev/rdisk2 conv=sync
  1. Eject the SD Card:
sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdisk2
  1. Your SD Card is ready! You can now boot your Raspberry Pi using your newly created Raspbian OS inside your SD Card. Enjoy!

Sample Output:

→ sudo dd bs=1m if=2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.img of=/dev/rdisk2 conv=sync  
Password:  
4600+0 records in  
4600+0 records out  
4823449600 bytes transferred in 726.374134 secs (6640448 bytes/sec)
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