Create SD card for Raspberry Pi using command 'dd'

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This is mostly for my own reference in case I need to create another SD card some time.  All commands are executed in Linux...

• Download the image file from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads (I used the "Wheezy" version)
• Execute the command in order to verify that the download was correct

sha1sum <image filename.zip>

• Extract the image file using 

unzip <image filename.zip>

• Insert the SD card in the reader (or adapter or whatever)
• In my case, on my Linux virtual machine, I had to pull down the 'devices' menu and choose the USB device to make the device visible in virtual machine
• To see the device name (it was /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 in my case) type

df -h

• Unmount the device using 

umount /dev/sdb1
umount /dev/sdb2

• The name sdb1 indicates the device name (sdb) and the partition number (1).  In the next step, use only the device name, not the partition so that the image is written to the ENTIRE card.  (I made the mistake of using sdb1 instead of sdb and it burns a card that doesn't boot.)
• Copy the image to the SD card using 

sudo dd bs=4M if=<image filename.img> of=/dev/sdb

• Wait about 10 minutes
• To flush the cache to the card run 

sudo sync

• Insert the card in your Raspberry Pi and have fun!

Also, see my followup post on how to Clone your Raspberry Pi SD Card

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