The Raspberry Pi website has great documentation to setup the SD card properly.
Tips for mac:
To speed up the copying, we should use the raw disk drive instead. Some have gotten 10x improved performance by doing the following:
*adding r to /dev/disknumber to become /dev/rdisknumber which will use it as a raw disk
The full command will look like:
New:
sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/rdisknumber
Old:
sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/disknumber
It was indeed faster (the previous took forever)
2825+0 records in
2825+0 records out
2962227200 bytes transferred in 257.177468 secs (11518222 bytes/sec)
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