Installing Raspbian from Mac

This is the how I installed Raspbian from my Mac laptop.

1. Insert the flash card and identify which disk it is on your system.

   ~$ diskutil list
   [truncated output]
   /dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk3
      1:             Windows_FAT_16 NO NAME                 21.0 MB    disk3s1
      2:                      Linux                         188.7 MB   disk3s2
      3:                      Linux                         7.7 GB     disk3s3
   

2. Unmount the SD card:

   ~$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3
   Unmount of all volumes on disk3 was successful
   

3. Now burn the image to the SD card. This may take a while and there is no output, however you can press Ctrl-T to check the status and make sure that it's progressing.

   ~$ sudo dd bs=1m if=2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/disk3
   
   [Insert long silence here]
   
   1237+1 records in
   1237+1 records out
   1297862656 bytes transferred in 1051.910555 secs (1233815 bytes/sec)
   

   As I said, there is no output, by periodically pressing Ctrl-T you will get a status such as this:

   load: 4.21  cmd: dd 42016 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.03s
   3+0 records in
   2+0 records out
   2097152 bytes transferred in 6.629309 secs (316345 bytes/sec)