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- Hi, my name is Lucy and
I'm from the the MagPi,
the official Raspberry Pi magazine.
Now we've had a few people
asking about installing
the Raspberry Pi desktop, x86,
on a old Mac computer like this one.
We gave away a free DVD of
the Raspberry Pi desktop
with issue 60 of "The
MagPi" but some of the Macs
don't have DVD drives or the
DVD drive doesn't work anymore
or for one reason or another
it just doesn't work.
And the answer is to
download Raspberry Pi desktop
from the Raspberry Pi website and use it
to create a USB installer.
You'll need one of
these, a USB flash drive,
and it'll need at least four
gigabyte of storage space.
Now I'm going to show you
how to turn a flash drive
into a USB installer and use it
to install Raspberry Pi
desktop on this whole MacBook.
First of all, head to raspberrypi.org
and click on Downloads.
Scroll down and click
on Raspberry Pi Desktop
and then click on Download ISO.
This will download the ISO
file to your hard drive.
Now, attach the USB
flash drive to your Mac.
Open Disk Utility, which you
can find using Go, Utilities,
and double clicking on Disk Utility.
Look under External
and you should find your external drive.
Choose the USB flash
drive and click on Erase.
Choose Mac OS 10 Extended
[Journaled] as the format
and GUID partition map.
Give it a name if you want.
We're calling ours Raspberry.
Click Erase to wipe the drive
and click Done when it's finished.
Now close down Desk Utility.
Check that the Raspberry PI ISO file
has finished downloading.
When it's downloaded, open the terminal.
Now we need to convert
the file form ISO to IMG,
which is Mac equivalent.
And for that we use a
terminal talk called hdiutil.
Use "cd downloads" and list
to take a look at the file.
The command you need is "hdiutil convert
"-format
"UDRW
"-O".
Then you need to enter the target file,
which we'll call "raspberry-desktop.img",
and the source file,
which is the jessie.iso file.
Don't forget that after
typing in the first parts
of the Jessie file name,
you can press Tab to
automatically expand it.
Press Return and you'll see
the conversion take place,
and you'll see the new file.
Now for some weird reason,
Mac IOS places a .dmg extension after it.
So let's rename it and get
rid of the .dmg extension.
Use "mv raspberry-desktop.img.dmg" to
"raspberry-desktop.img".
Now we've got to burn this
file to our USB stick.
And to do this, we're going to use Etcher.
Open Etcher and select
raspberry-desktop.img.
Make sure your USB flash
drive is the target drive.
Now click Flash.
Enter your Apple password and click Okay.
The finished disk won't work on your Mac,
and you'll get an alert
that it's not readable.
Don't worry, just click Eject.
Now attach it to the Mac
you want to install
Raspberry Pi Desktop on
and boot it up.
Hold down the Alt key while it boots.
To the right of your hard
drive, you'll see two options
for EFI boot.
They're the ones in yellow.
Pick the first one and press enter.
You'll now see the blue
installation window.
Scroll down and click
Install and press Return.
Now just follow the
installation instructions
to install Raspberry
Pi desktop on your Mac.
Anyway, we hope you find
this tutorial useful
and try using Raspberry Pi
desktop on your computer.
You'll find a lot of tutorials
like this in the MagPi,
the official Raspberry Pi magazine,
which you can subscribe
to using this link.
You get a free Raspberry
Pi Zero W and a case
with each print subscription.
I've been Lucy from the MagPi.
See you next time.
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