- Download minibian image - Push the image to the sdcard

dd bs=4M if=./2015-02-18-wheezy-minibian.img | pv | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0

- Boot the pi

- Install raspi-config
apt-get install raspi-config

Run raspi-config to resize the partiton

- Update Timezone (if necessary) sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

- Update packages and upgrade apt-get update apt-get upgrade