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#### On the Raspberry Pi
-Tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero with a clean install of minimal Debian Stretch (2017-09-07 or later) from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
+Tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero with a clean install of minimal Raspbian Stretch (2017-09-07 or later) from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. If you are using Raspian Jessie, [please see note in the following section](#note-for-raspbian-jessie-users).
* `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` to install all of the latest software
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* You may wish to reduce the size of the swap file after the build has finished, and delete the boost directory from your home directory
+#### *Note for Raspbian Jessie Users:*
+
+If you are using the older Raspbian Jessie image, compiling Monero is a bit more complicated. The version of Boost available in the Debian Jessie repositories is too old to use with Monero, and thus you must compile a newer version yourself. The following explains the extra steps, and has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 with a clean install of minimal Raspbian Jessie.
+
+* As before, `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` to install all of the latest software, and increase the system swap size
+
+```
+ sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile stop
+ sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile
+ CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024
+ sudo /etc/init.d/dphys-swapfile start
+```
+
+* Then, install the dependencies for Monero except `libunwind` and `libboost-all-dev`
+
+* Install the latest version of boost (this may first require invoking `apt-get remove --purge libboost*` to remove a previous version if you're not using a clean install):
+```
+ cd
+ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.64.0/boost_1_64_0.tar.bz2
+ tar xvfo boost_1_64_0.tar.bz2
+ cd boost_1_64_0
+ ./bootstrap.sh
+ sudo ./b2
+```
+* Wait ~8 hours
+```
+ sudo ./bjam install
+```
+* Wait ~4 hours
+
+* From here, follow the [general Raspberry Pi instructions](#on-the-raspberry-pi) from the "Clone monero and checkout most recent release version" step.
+
#### On Windows:
Binaries for Windows are built on Windows using the MinGW toolchain within