The following steps will show you how to download Raspbian Lite:
- The first step is downloading the Raspbian Lite image so we can burn it to our microSD card. The best place to get the image from is https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/, as shown in the following screenshot:
A screenshot of the Raspbian download page, with both Full and Lite download links
- Select RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE (or whichever version is the current one), which will replace the word STRETCH. Give yourself some time for this step to complete; although Raspbian Lite is much smaller than Raspbian Full, it is still several hundred megabytes, and can take time to download!
If you're preparing to run a class, hackathon, or some other event using the Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, it's best to predownload it and place it on a flash drive to hand around, as conference and event Wi-Fi can be a bit slower than normal, or even drop in and out, so be prepared!