Raspberry PI Setup
Turning on a Raspberry PI
- Get The Parts
- PI (local Bellevue source is Vetco)
- Micro SD Memory Chip. Ultra for speed is better
- Power Supply 5V 1A and USB micro (mini?) cable
- Required only at Setup - Keyboard
- Required only at Setup - Display - one of the following:
- HDMI TV
- Composite Monitor with 4 connector plug. Yellow and Red reversed from standard.
- Install OS on the memory chip
- Get Image
- Get Installer
- Write Image to Chip
- Boot (to rerun configuration program: sudo raspi-config)
- Expand memory
- Set Hostname
- Enable SSH
- # Customize for US - for more info see https://rohankapoor.com/2012/04/americanizing-the-raspberry-pi/
- Set Timezone - US/Pacific (sudo dpgk-reconfigure tzdata) (or America/LosAngeles?)
- Americanize Keyboard - from en_GB.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8 - (sudo dpgk-reconfigure locales)
- Or s/gb/us/ of XKBDLAYOUT in /etc/default/keyboard (and reboot)
- Update and Install Programs
- Replace 'uk' entries in /etc/apt/sources.list with 'us'
- apt-get install ntp screen tmux trafshow # more …
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