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I want to install Raspbian Jessie on a clean SD card. At the moment, the only way I've found is to install Wheezy using https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst and then upgrade it to Jessie using this way.

Is there a simpler way (without upgrade)?

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Dmitriy Simushev
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Yes

Greetings from 2016!
The Foundation now offers Raspbian Jessie for download and it works on the RPi1B!

  1. Download Raspbian Jessie or Raspbian Jessie Lite from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
  2. Follow the official guide for copying the image onto an sdcard.
  3. Plug the sdcard into your RPi1B.
  4. Plug in the power cable.

Tested with my old Raspberry Pi 1 B.

Hydraxan14
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https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

That link has RasPi Jessie, I don't know if it'll work with the non-Pi2s, but you can try it out. It doesn't say on the page.

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Release v1.0.8 of raspbian-ua-netinst now installs jessie by default. But with earlier versions you could do that by specifying release=jessie in installer-config.txt.
See https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst#installer-customization for details

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Edit: Sorry this answer only works for RPi 2. The problem with the RPi 1s is that Debian does not support this architecture by default (ARMv6). So you need to wait for a project or someone to do the build for you.

The following answer only applies to RPi2.

Collabora provides Debian 8 Jessie images for the RPi. They claim it's the official Debian 8 Jessie for armhf architecture but with the Raspberry Pi custom kernel and recompile by them.

The instructions and download links are here: http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/

Or check directly Collabora Blog for more recent news if any.

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