Start Your Raspberry Pi

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This blog is to help setup raspberry pi. Most of the part are following the Installing operating system images from the Raspberry Pi official website. But I have tried them and filtered out useless info.

  1. Download NOOBS. There are two versions, the full one probably contains all the supported systems and looks big (2.4GB), while the lite version is only 30MB which is just a program to initialize web download and installation of the OS. I preferred latter. You could also download the UBUNTU server or other OS.

  2. The instruction recommended balenaEtcher(mac app) to extract files from the .zip for compressed files bigger than 4GB. But the NOOBS lite is 30MB so what I actually did was unzip with Mac’s default one (double click on the file).

  3. Insert the Micro SD to Mac (of course through a converter) and erase it to MS-DOS FAT format (with Partition Map set to Master Boot Record) from Disk Utility(the mac default app).

  4. Copy all the files from the unzipped NOOBS to the formatted SD card. Then insert the micro SD to raspberry pi to start your installation. You’ll need to connect to wifi or plug in your Ethernet cable. NOOBS has UI to help do wifi connection.

  5. After installation, do wifi configuration for the connection by editing /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

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    network={
      ssid="$WIFI_NAME"
      psk="$PASSWORD"
    }

  6. If you want to get rid of monitor, setup static IP by editing /etc/dhcpcd.conf:

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    interface wlan0
    static ip_address=192.168.1.110
    static routers=192.168.1.1
    static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.1

  7. Reboot and enjoy!