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Getting Started With Raspberry Pi

This document provides a guide to getting started with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive computer that can be used for electronics projects and other tasks. The guide outlines the necessary hardware of a Raspberry Pi and micro SD card, and the Raspbian operating system software. It then lists out a 4 step process to download the OS, prepare the micro SD card by writing the image file, insert the card into the Raspberry Pi and power it on, and finally login through the graphical user interface.

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Getting Started With Raspberry Pi

This document provides a guide to getting started with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a small, inexpensive computer that can be used for electronics projects and other tasks. The guide outlines the necessary hardware of a Raspberry Pi and micro SD card, and the Raspbian operating system software. It then lists out a 4 step process to download the OS, prepare the micro SD card by writing the image file, insert the card into the Raspberry Pi and power it on, and finally login through the graphical user interface.

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2014

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Author: P N KIRAN
Email ID:kiran@tenettech.com

#9/3,Shree Lakshmi complex,2ndFloor,Opp,To Vivekananda Park,Girinagar,Bangalore-560085.www.tenettech.com

Introduction:
This easy step by step guide will help you set up your raspberry pi and get
started
Hardware requriment:
Raspberry pi
8GB Micro sd card

Software requriment :
Raspbian Debian Wheezy
Raspberry pi :
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a
capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things
that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays highdefinition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn how
computers work, how to manipulate the electronic world around them, and how to program..
for more info please visit the link click here.
Raspbian: The officially recommended official distribution from the Foundation,based on
Debian. Note that raspbian.org is a community site, not operated by the Foundation. If youre
looking for the official distribution, visit the downloads page at raspberrypi.org.
Getting Started
Step 1:
Download Raspberry pi official Operating system Raspbian . For downloading
this OS please visit the link click here

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Step 2:
Prepare your SD Card:
Plug an micro sd card in to an card reader and plug in to an pc format this micro
sd card using sd formater. For downloading this sd formater please visit the link
click here
SD card setup (copying the image to an SD card using on windows)
o Extract the image file 2013-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img from the
downloaded .zip file.
o Write an downloaded OS in to an micro SD card using win32 disk imager
.for downloading this win32 disk imager please click here.
o Extract the executable from the zip file and run the Win32DiskImager
utility. You may need to run the utility as Administrator
o Insert the SD card into your SD card reader and check what drive letter it
was assigned.

o You can easily see the drive letter (for example F:) by looking in the left
column of Windows Explorer.
o If the card is not new, you should format it; otherwise Win32DiskImager
may hang.
o Select the 2013-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img image file you extracted
earlier

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o Select the drive letter of the SD card in the device box.


o Be careful to select the correct drive; if you get the wrong one you can
destroy your computer's hard disk! .
o Click Write
o

And wait for the write to complete.

Step 3 :
Prepare and Connect
Insert your prepared micro SD Card in to an Raspberry pi Micro SD card slot .
Plug the HDMI output into your TV or monitor. Make sure your monitor is on.
Plug in the power supply. In general, try to make sure everything else is
hooked up before connecting the power.
Turn raspberry pi board on by plugging the micro usb Power cabel(5v,1A dc)

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Step 4 :
Then Raspberry Pi, power it on, and it should boot up. There is an option in the configure
script that comes up to expand the partitions to use all of the SD card if you have used one
larger than 8GB..
It will ask login id and password
start the graphical interface:
o raspberrypi login: pi
o Password: raspberry
o pi@raspberrypi ~ $ startx

To buy this raspberry pi product click here


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