How to Prepare your hardware

1 FORMAT THE HARD DRIVE

In Disk Utility, select the external volume, click Erase, name it ‘Time Machine’, select ‘OS X Extended (Journaled)’ and GUID. Click Erase. In Terminal, enter sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/ Time\ Machine && ls -l /Volumes. The row for formatted volume must start drwxrwxrwx.

2 FORMAT THE SD CARD

Download and open SD Formatter 4.0 from bit.ly/1T4Ufgs. Connect an 8GB or larger MicroSD card to your Mac and select it in the app’s ‘Select Card’ pop-up menu. Next, select ‘Overwrite Format’ and enter boot (without quotes) in the Name eld, then click Format.

3 INSTALL NOOBS

Download the o ine version of NOOBS in ZIP format from bit.ly/getnoobs. Unpack and copy the contents to your SD card. When you start up your Pi in a moment, you’ll need to follow on-screen instructions for NOOBS to put a working installation of Raspbian on the card.

4 ASSEMBLE THE HARDWARE

Eject the hard drive and SD card from your Mac and connect them to the Pi. Also connect a USB keyboard and mouse, an HDMI cable and a display, and connect the power supply. Using NOOBS to install Raspbian is simple, though a full guide is at bit.ly/ runnoobs.

5 CONNECT TO YOUR NETWORK

When you reach Raspbian’s desktop, ensure your Pi is connected to your network. Put the pointer over the icon of two networked computers at the right end of the Task Bar and a tooltip should appear with a line like ‘eth0: connected’ followed by an IP address.

6 CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

On top of Raspbian, you’ll need to download some additional software from the internet. Open the Epiphany web browser, which you’ll nd at the left end of the Task Bar, and direct it to a website to ensure your Pi can reach the outside world.