Here is a simple set of instructions to set up the SD card for your Raspberry Pi in Linux. Download desired OS image. ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ ) Set your SD Card for image flashing: Unmount the sdcard. This should give full access to gparted. Open GParted Software. I you don't have GParted, you can install it through the Following instruction: $ sudo apt-get install gparted Delete All existing partitions in the SD card . Reformat all into fat32. Flash image to sd card through dd command: $ sudo dd bs=1M if=/home/enzero/Projects/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress /dev/mmcblk0 - The SD card directory. In my case, I was using the card reader port so it is mmcblk0 /home/<DOWNLOAD_PATH>/2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.img - OS image location
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