# Setting up a Raspberry Pi with NOOBS

## Overview

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use NOOBS (New Out Of the Box Software) to setup your Raspberry Pi.

  

NOOBS is a minimal disk image that can just be copied onto a newly formatted SD card. You then put it into the SD slot on the Raspberry Pi and It downloads the rest of what it needs.
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