For this, you need to choose ‘Run with persistence’, and attach a USB pen drive to your computer. Here you’ll see seven options: Run with persistence, Run and reset persistence, Run without persistence, Install, Graphical install, and Advanced options.Ĭhoose ‘Run without persistence’ to quickly boot into the Raspberry Pi Desktop x86 operating system. The new version of The Raspberry Pi Desktop features a boot menu. If this doesn’t work, hold down the Option key (marked ‘alt’) and choose the EFI Boot icon. Insert the DVD into your Mac and shut it down. On most PCs, you press F1 during boot to do this.Īpple Mac computers are designed to boot from the hard drive first, and not from an inserted DVD. If it does not boot from the DVD, you need to change the Boot Priority Order in your BIOS settings. Most PC computers are set up to boot from the optical drive before the hard drive, and you should see the Debian GNU/Linux installer boot menu. Turn off your computer and insert the DVD. The free DVD bundled with the print edition of The MagPi #60 can be used to start up a PC or Mac computer with an optical DVD drive.

The Raspberry Pi Desktop x86 ISO image file.

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The full article can be found in The MagPi 60 and was written by Lucy Hattersley. We’ve run it successfully on many old PC and Mac devices. The Raspberry Pi Desktop x86 runs on most computers with an Intel x86 architecture. This DVD is an ideal tool for adapting an old computer into a useful coding and hacking machine. You can still run the Raspberry Pi Desktop on a PC or Mac computer, but now you can also install the Raspberry Pi Desktop on your hard drive, replacing the previous operating system. The latest version of The Raspberry Pi Desktop x86 is included with the print edition of this month’s magazine. Regular readers will know that we first gave away a copy of The Raspberry Pi Desktop operating system with issue 53 of The MagPi.

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