RE: Raspberry Pi question

A few additional bits of recommendation I'll provide:
1.  Be Careful
    Whatever method you use to get the Raspbmc image onto
    your SD card (whether fancy installer program or raw
    writing of bits using dd), make sure you're writing
    the image to the correct /dev/sdX device.  A tool like
    dd will happily write an image to whatever device you
    specify without any kind of sanity checking to ensure
    you're not over-writing and killing your root partition.
2.  Partition (if necessary)
    If you go the route of having a very large SD card to
    hold lots of static data, partition your SD card into
    maybe a 4 GB partition for Raspbmc itself, and the
    remainder of the SD card to purely hold data.  I found
    this was a great way to keep the system area relatively
    small and made it super convenient to perform system-
    wide backups of your Raspbmc build by using dd.  And
    you only have to worry about the system partition and
    not the 14 GB of data files you have stored, because
    why back those up in a system backup?  I do a backup
    prior to any Raspbmc upgrade, so if there's any
    failures it's incredibly easy to flash right back to
    a known good state.  (I disable the automatic updating
    to nightly builds that Raspbmc wants to do.)  Do this
    partitioning of the card before you do the installing,
    and you'll be able to specify the right partition for
    installation.
3.  Stay Classy
    Whichever size SD card you opt for to suit the way you
    are going to use the system, make sure the SD card you
    get is Class 10.  It may actually be pretty hard to
    even find the lower classes (slower access times) these
    days, but it's worth ensuring.  Class 10 all the way.

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