Raspberry Pi OS 64 Bit Installation

This labnote was last updated on 12/24/2020

Note the 32 bit version is the standard installation. 

At this time the 64 bit version is in BETA. 

Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit installation instructions can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y45hsd2AOpw

Two components are required to install the Raspberry Pi OS

• Raspberry Pi Imager
• Rasbperry Pi OS image

Downloads

Both items can be downloaded from the Raspberry Pi website

Raspberry Pi Imager can be found here:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/

Raspberry Pi OS 64bit (BETA) can be found here:

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/

Raspberry PI OS 64bit discussion can be found here

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1668160

This discussion includes some of the issue with the 64bit version.

Installation

After installation of the Raspberry Pi Imager

Start the application

Select Choose OS

Scroll down and select Use custom

Select the Raspberry Pi OS download

Select Choose SD

Select the SD card.  

Confirm you have not selected other devices you do not want to erase.

Select Write

Now wait…  this take a little while... get a cup of coffee... call you mom....

Now just pop the SD card in your Raspberry Pi 3 or Raspberry Pi 4 and boot up and go through the setup procedure.