Look at the fourth column which shows the size of the devices of your workstation. You should see a list of all your disks like this: Flash the downloaded image to your SD cardįirst put your SD card into the computer. In the next step we will flash this file onto your SD card. Now extract the zip file with unzip hypriotos-rpi-201?.img.zipĪfter the file is unzipped you will have a new file with an. Go to your Download folder first by typing cd ~/Downloads Now we will extract the downloaded zip file. To do this press CMD + Whitespace and type terminal. Download the Hypriot Docker SD card imageĭownload our latest SD card image from the download page.Īfter the download is completed open a terminal window. Transferring an image to an SD card is often referred to as flashing.Īfterwards you just have to insert the flashed SD card into your Raspberry Pi and start it up.

To use the image you first have to download and transfer it to your SD card. We - from Hypriot - created a preconfigured SD card image which contains everything you need to run Docker on your Raspberry Pi. In our case the software we wanna use is Docker. With software we basically mean two things: first an operating system for your Raspberry Pi and second the software you as user would like to use - e.g. The SD card contains all the software which we are going to use on our Raspberry Pi. If you are going to use a Raspberry 2 you will have to use a microSD card - otherwise a normal SD card is sufficient. The hardware you gonna need to follow along is a Raspberry Pi 1 or 2 and one SD card. If you don’t you can learn the basics in An Introduction to the Linux Terminal and come back afterwards. Make sure that you know the basics about the command line and you should be ready to go. We tried to make this guide as concise as possible. If you have not read the getting started guide about Docker on the Raspberry Pi yet you might wanna check it out first: Getting started with Docker on your ARM Device This guide shows you how to get Docker running on your Raspberry Pi using a Mac OS X workstation.

How to get Docker running on your Raspberry Pi using Mac OS X

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