My first Raspberry Pi alive and kicking

Just wrote the Debian image on my first Raspberry Pi, hooked it up to power and video out to my TV and....

first boot of my Raspberry pi

First I followed the 'SD card setup with linux' in the MagPi issue 2, but that did not seem to work.  On my version of Ubuntu I did the following:

• inserted the SD card in to the SD card reader of my laptop (automatically appeared as /dev/sdb1)
• did not unmount it
• executed the following command 'sudo dd if=./debian6-19-04-2012.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M'