Unzip raspbian download on Raspberry Pi

[iFunction]

Hi there,

I have just downloaded Raspbian Jessie as all my other copy became corrupted for some reason. How do you unzip it so it can be mounted onto an sd card on a raspberry pi. I can do it on a mac, but that is at home, and I need to do this here at work but can't do it on the work windows computers. Is there a way to do this on a raspberry pi, or is my day now written off?

[jahboater]

Assuming you have enough disk space ... just use "unzip", then "dd" to write the image to the SD card.

More helpfully, follow this link down to the Linux section where the process is described in great detail.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md
The Pi is just like any other Linux machine, the commands are the same.
A little slower though - it may take some time to unzip a full Jessie image.

[iFunction]

I have unzipped it, but I can't find where it has gone, I was hoping it would just go to the same folder I unzipped it from

[jahboater]

It normally does. The output file ends with ".img". Did you run unzip from the command line?
There is a -d option to send the unzipped files elsewhere, but you would have known had you used that.
The full Jessie image is well over 4GB by the way.

[RaTTuS]

ls -l

[JimmyN]

If you're using an 8 gig SDCard you may not have enough space, since you're probably using 3 gigs or more for the "/" filesystem already.

The Raspbian zip file is around 1.3gigs, and unzipped it's almost 4gigs. So you'd need well over 5gigs of free space to download and unzip it. If that's a problem you could plug in a flashdrive to provide the needed space for unzipping.