Raspberrypi setup

Prerequisite:

1) Raspberry Pi device with data cable.
2) Card reader
3) Micro SD card. Here is the compatible documentation
4) A monitor with an HDMI interface
5) HDMI cable
6) USB keyboard
7) USB Mouse
8) Ethernet Cable [Optional]

Following are the steps to move with: 

1) Format SD card:
    Recommended way to format  by SD Card Formatter, you can download it from here

2) Let say we have to load RASPBIAN image onto SD Card, download image from here
 
3) Now its time to load image on SD Card

4) Open a MAC terminal window and then run command: diskutil list

5) Identify your removable drive device address, it will probably be look like the ones below:

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME        SIZE       IDENTIFIER

0:GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB   disk0


/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME         SIZE     IDENTIFIER

0: Macintosh HD  *378.1 GB   disk1

 Logical Volume on disk0s2

   DAB8DF9E23-A4RR-420D-00R1-FRT67WE

Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk3

  #:       TYPE NAME     SIZE       IDENTIFIER

  0:  FDisk_partition_scheme *7.9 GB     disk3

    1:   DOS_FAT_32 AJ     7.9 GB     disk3s1

Note that your removable drive must be DOS_FAT_32 formatted. In this example, /dev/disk3 is the drive address of an 8GB SD card.

6) Unmount your SD card via command: diskutil unmountDisk <drive address>

7) When successful, you should see a message similar to this one:

Unmount of all volumes on <drive address> was successful

8) You can now copy/load the image onto SD card, using the following command:

sudo dd bs=32m if=<image file path> of=<drive address>

Thereafter you will see the following message output and also by pressing Ctrl+t you can see like below records in/out bytes

3420+1 records in

3420+1 records out

286665744 bytes transferred in 524.761215 secs (5069924 bytes/sec)

9) Now you can eject your removable drive. You are ready to install RASPBIAN image on your device.

In Part Two we will learn about how to use SSH and VNC as a virtually desktop on MACOSX.