Easy Raspbian Install Raspberry pi 1 , 2 , 3 or zero

# How to Install Raspbian on Your Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, or Raspberry Pi Zero

Hello, everyone! It's ETA Prime back again, and today, I want to show you how to install Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi, whether it’s a Raspberry Pi 1, Raspberry Pi 2, or Raspberry Pi Zero. This is the easiest way to install an operating system, and you don’t need any extra tools except for your internet browser and an SD card with an SD card reader.

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## Step-by-Step Guide

### 1. **Downloading NOOBS**

First, open up your preferred web browser and head over to [www.raspbian.org](http://www.raspbian.org). At the top of the page, click on "Downloads." From there, navigate to the "NOOBS" section. You can choose to download the torrent file or the ZIP file directly in your browser. For safety, I recommend downloading the ZIP file.

I’ve already downloaded NOOBS and placed it in a folder on my desktop. This is version 1.5.0 of NOOBS, and it’s about one gigabyte in size.

### 2. **Extracting the Files**

Next, you’ll need to unzip or extract the contents of the NOOBS ZIP file. I’m extracting it to the same folder on my desktop where I stored the downloaded file.

Once extracted, open the folder, and you should see all the necessary files and folders inside.

### 3. **Preparing Your SD Card**

Now, locate your SD card. In my case, I’ve named mine "SD card," and it’s labeled as "My E Drive." Open up File Explorer (or Finder on macOS) to view your SD card.

You want to copy everything from the extracted NOOBS folder and paste it directly onto your clean 8-gigabyte SD card. Make sure you’re pasting all the files into the root directory of the SD card, not just a subfolder.

### 4. **Inserting the SD Card into Your Raspberry Pi**

After copying all the necessary files to your SD card, remove it from your computer and insert it into your Raspberry Pi. Power on your device.

At this point, ensure your Raspberry Pi is connected to the internet. I’m using an Ethernet connection, but if you’re using Wi-Fi, you can set up your network through the top menu option.

### 5. **Selecting Raspbian for Installation**

From the NOOBS interface, you’ll see a variety of options to install different operating systems on your Raspberry Pi. Since I want to install Raspbian, I’ve checked that box. It’s important to note that this installation requires three and a half gigabytes of space, and I have six gigabytes available on my eight-gigabyte SD card.

Clicking “Install” will begin the process. Be aware that this will overwrite any existing data on your SD card but won’t affect the NOOBS installation itself. A confirmation prompt will appear asking if you’re sure you want to proceed. Click “Yes.”

### 6. **Completing the Installation**

Once you click “Install,” NOOBS will download and install Raspbian onto your SD card. You’ll only need to press one more button when the installation is complete.

After installation, remove the SD card from your Raspberry Pi, reboot it, and you’ll be greeted by the Raspbian desktop.

### 7. **Extending the File System**

Before diving into Raspbian, I highly recommend extending the file system to utilize the full capacity of your SD card. Close any open browsers first.

In the file manager, you’ll notice that only two and a half gigabytes are free out of eight. Extend this by accessing the terminal through the menu: go to “Menu > Accessories > Terminal.”

### 8. **Overclocking (Optional)**

For those looking to optimize performance, you can overclock your Raspberry Pi. Open the terminal again and type:

```

sudo raspi-config

```

This will launch the Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool. Navigate to “OCH” (overclocking settings). If you’re using a Raspberry Pi 2 like me, select “1 GHz” for the CPU speed. You can also adjust the memory split by scrolling down to “Memory Split.” I changed mine to 300 megabytes to allocate more RAM to the GPU. After making these changes, scroll to the bottom and select “Finish,” then reboot your device.

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### Final Thoughts

And there you have it! That’s how you install Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi, whether it’s a Raspberry Pi 1, Raspberry Pi 2, or Raspberry Pi Zero. Raspbian comes with tons of pre-installed software, including programming languages, office suites, and even Minecraft.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below or send me a private message. If you found this guide helpful, don’t forget to like the video, subscribe to my channel for more content, and hit that notification bell so you never miss an update. Thanks for watching!

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extract it so we're going to just extract it to the same folder here alright so let's go ahead and open up this folder and you should have all of these files and folders inside of the unzipped noobs that you just unzipped or the noobs that you just extracted you want to find where SD card is now i have named mine SD card and it's labeled as my e drive so i'm going to go ahead and copy everything inside of the folder that we just extracted and i'm going to go ahead and paste it into my clean 8 gigabytes and disk SD card now that we have all of the files copy let's just go ahead and make sure we'll go to our file explorer SD card and all of the files that you extracted extracted from the noobs zip file that you downloaded from Raspberry Pi org are on the SD card so we're going to go ahead and switch over to the Raspberry Pi we just want to go ahead and pull our SD card from the computer place it into the Raspberry Pi and power it on okay now that we've taken the SD card from the computer and place it into the Raspberry Pi we've powered up the Raspberry Pi and you need to be connected to the internet now I am connected with ethernet if you are connected with Wi-Fi you can go ahead and set up your Wi-Fi networks through this option up at the top here as you can see here we have a lot of options to choose from to install different operating systems on to a raspberry pi I want to install raspy in so I'm going to go ahead and check for a spin it's going to need three point five gigabytes and I have six available on my eight gigabyte SD card so let's go ahead and install all we need to do to install is click install here this will install the selected operating system all existing data on the SD card will be overwritten this will overwrite any other os's that are on here right now it will not overwrite the noobs install installation screen like you see here so let's go ahead and hit yes and it's going to go ahead and download install and we just have to click one more button when it's done installing and we're ready to boot up raspy and I'm going to go ahead and fast-forward this you now that the install was successful we're going to go ahead and hit OK or enter and boot into raspbian on your Raspberry Pi so it's finished and booted to the raspbian desktop there's one last thing you want to do before you can start using this you can use it like this but I definitely suggest extending the file system oh I did not want to do that go ahead and close the browser down so when we go to our file manager here you can see we have two point four gigabytes free okay so you now we're booted to the desktop and you're ready to use rasp Ian there's tons of stuff already pre-installed and you can also install a bunch of other applications I will link the tutorial to install Cody I XBMC media player so we got a lot of programming languages that you can learn you can make games with scratch we have all the basic office suits that you need we got math writing drawing we can do play minecraft there's other python that you can install we have calculators I mean pretty much everything that a modern operating system has quick tip if you would like to overclock your raspbian operating system this will overclock the CPU of the raspberry pi 1 the raspberry pi 2 of the raspberry pi 0 so just go to menu accessories terminal and then the terminal prompt here we want to go ahead and type in sudo r as pie config and press enter now this will bring us to the raspberry pi software configuration tool we want to scroll down to OCH and i am on the pie too so i want to go to one gigahertz we will go to one gigahertz and then i would like to do a memory split to add more ram to my GPU so we'll go to advanced options scroll down here to memory split and i want to change this to let's just say 300 oh my lord 300 megabytes go ahead and hit enter go down to finish and you can go ahead and reboot and your overclock and memory split will be set up well that's pretty much it for the install of raspbian on your Raspberry Pi your Raspberry Pi 2 or your Raspberry Pi zero if you have any questions leave a comment or send me a private message and if you could help me out if you like this video or if it helped you at all go ahead and hit that like button subscribe and thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys it's ETA prime back here again and today I wanted to show you how to install raspbian on your Raspberry Pi one your Raspberry Pi 2 or your Raspberry Pi zero this is the easiest way to install you don't need any extra tools except for your internet browser and your SD card and SD card reader so first up let's go ahead and get started you want to go ahead and open up your browser whatever browser you'd like to use and head on over to ww are as berry pie org now up here at the top we're going to go to downloads and we're going to go to noobs we want to go ahead and download noobs now you can download the torrent or you can download the zip depending on if you feel safe using torrents or you can download it directly in your browser by the zip so i have already downloaded it and i have placed it in a folder on my desktop and named it raspberry pi now this is noobs version 1.5 point 0 it's one gig you want to go ahead and unzip it or extract it so we're going to just extract it to the same folder here alright so let's go ahead and open up this folder and you should have all of these files and folders inside of the unzipped noobs that you just unzipped or the noobs that you just extracted you want to find where SD card is now i have named mine SD card and it's labeled as my e drive so i'm going to go ahead and copy everything inside of the folder that we just extracted and i'm going to go ahead and paste it into my clean 8 gigabytes and disk SD card now that we have all of the files copy let's just go ahead and make sure we'll go to our file explorer SD card and all of the files that you extracted extracted from the noobs zip file that you downloaded from Raspberry Pi org are on the SD card so we're going to go ahead and switch over to the Raspberry Pi we just want to go ahead and pull our SD card from the computer place it into the Raspberry Pi and power it on okay now that we've taken the SD card from the computer and place it into the Raspberry Pi we've powered up the Raspberry Pi and you need to be connected to the internet now I am connected with ethernet if you are connected with Wi-Fi you can go ahead and set up your Wi-Fi networks through this option up at the top here as you can see here we have a lot of options to choose from to install different operating systems on to a raspberry pi I want to install raspy in so I'm going to go ahead and check for a spin it's going to need three point five gigabytes and I have six available on my eight gigabyte SD card so let's go ahead and install all we need to do to install is click install here this will install the selected operating system all existing data on the SD card will be overwritten this will overwrite any other os's that are on here right now it will not overwrite the noobs install installation screen like you see here so let's go ahead and hit yes and it's going to go ahead and download install and we just have to click one more button when it's done installing and we're ready to boot up raspy and I'm going to go ahead and fast-forward this you now that the install was successful we're going to go ahead and hit OK or enter and boot into raspbian on your Raspberry Pi so it's finished and booted to the raspbian desktop there's one last thing you want to do before you can start using this you can use it like this but I definitely suggest extending the file system oh I did not want to do that go ahead and close the browser down so when we go to our file manager here you can see we have two point four gigabytes free okay so you now we're booted to the desktop and you're ready to use rasp Ian there's tons of stuff already pre-installed and you can also install a bunch of other applications I will link the tutorial to install Cody I XBMC media player so we got a lot of programming languages that you can learn you can make games with scratch we have all the basic office suits that you need we got math writing drawing we can do play minecraft there's other python that you can install we have calculators I mean pretty much everything that a modern operating system has quick tip if you would like to overclock your raspbian operating system this will overclock the CPU of the raspberry pi 1 the raspberry pi 2 of the raspberry pi 0 so just go to menu accessories terminal and then the terminal prompt here we want to go ahead and type in sudo r as pie config and press enter now this will bring us to the raspberry pi software configuration tool we want to scroll down to OCH and i am on the pie too so i want to go to one gigahertz we will go to one gigahertz and then i would like to do a memory split to add more ram to my GPU so we'll go to advanced options scroll down here to memory split and i want to change this to let's just say 300 oh my lord 300 megabytes go ahead and hit enter go down to finish and you can go ahead and reboot and your overclock and memory split will be set up well that's pretty much it for the install of raspbian on your Raspberry Pi your Raspberry Pi 2 or your Raspberry Pi zero if you have any questions leave a comment or send me a private message and if you could help me out if you like this video or if it helped you at all go ahead and hit that like button subscribe and thanks for watching\n"