How To Get Raspbian Jessie On To A 4GB SD Card

How To Get Raspbian Jessie On To A 4GB SD Card

The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently announced they were releasing Raspbian Jesse. Everyone in the community has been very excited by this!

One issue a few people is the struggle to fit the Jesse image onto 4GD SD cards, as the image size is 4.3GB. Obviously, the easy solution would be to purchase 8GB cards. However, this blogger found a way to make Jesse fit onto 4GB SD cards.

 

According to him, it seems daunting at first, but it’s relatively easy to do.

The equipment required.

  • A 4GB SD card (call it card F) with a working (but un-needed) Wheezy installation (card M) , a blank 8GB SD card and one at least 16GB card with a working Raspbian installation (card S) or another Linux/Mac machine with enough free space to store GBs of images.
  • An SD card reader

You can find out all the steps needed to do this here