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Expand Up @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ For more information run 'rpiboot -h'

## Building

### Ubuntu
Clone this on your Pi or an Ubuntu linux machine

```
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sudo ./rpiboot
```

### macOS
From a macOS machine, you can also run usbboot, just follow the same steps:

1. Clone the `usbboot` repository
2. Install `libusb` (`brew install libusb`)
3. Build using make
4. Run the binary

```
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot
cd usbboot
brew install libusb
make
sudo ./rpiboot
```

**Note:** You might see an OS warning message about a new disk that it can't access, click "ignore", this likely means that the storage is empty and has no filesystem. From here I recommend installing an OS using the [Raspberry Pi Imager App](https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/), or using any other means like `dd`.

## Running your own (not MSD) build

If you would like to boot the Raspberry Pi with a standard build you just need to copy the FAT partition
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