Beginners • Re: How to install Raspbian?

Thank you for the Feedback, I hope it hasn't offended anyone, when you have used something for so long, you tend to use phrases as what you know it for, sure things get rebranded and renamed.

That's fine and dandy when writing notes for your own use. But you're not. You're writing for "anyone who has recently purchased a Raspberry Pi and is wondering how to Image the OS onto the Memory Card".

With that in mind here's some first pass feedback:

• It's Raspberry Pi OS not raspbian and has been for some years.
• Pi are designed and sold by Raspberry Pi Ltd. Not the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• It's not "Bookworm 6.1.69". It's Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm with kernel version 6.1.69. The kernel version can, does, and has changed while the release name stays the same.
• As written, step one "If you haven’t already downloaded and installed the Raspberry PI Imager you will want to do that first, download it by clicking here." makes step two redundant.
• Step 3. Installation of what?
• Step 4 reads like a critisim of the Raspberry Pi Imager's installer rather than instrcutions. Desktop icons are not required by windows and not every one wants them.
• Step 7: It has to be a 64bit OS.[edit] Correction: That only applies to the Pi 5. The 4B can run 32 or 64 bit. [/edit]
• Step 7: "we need to select the storage option and select where you would like the Raspberry PI OS to be installed." That's selecting the same thing twice.
• Step 7: "you should identify it by the storage capacity for example, we are using a 32GB Memory card, so we selected the option which stated a 32GB Memory card." And if there is more than one device with the same capacity?
  Also, remember that most SD cards come preformatted and show a lower capacity than their advertised nominal one (overheads, bad sectors, SI vs non-SI units, ...). Plus not all 32GB drives are the same capacity, same as not all HDDs/SSDs of the same nominal capacity are.
• Step 8: You should really click "Yes" here. If you don't you will need a keyboard and monitor connected during first boot in order to configure a user and configure WiFi.
• Step 9: If you're going to backup the SD card you should really do that before launching Imager.
• Step11: Needs a warning to ignore any prompts Windows gives you about not being able to read the root partition and asking if it should format it.
• Need setp 11A: eject/safely remove the drive corresponding to the boot partition before disconnecting it from the windows box.

And I'm not even going to start on style and grammar issues (inconsistent use of "clicked" and "pressed"; no indication of which bits are the quoted text from imager; and wrong letter case for some of that text. To name three).

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:55 am

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