[Linux] Raspberry Pi start experience and system installation

Background

Always wanted to beat the drums to something. When you see the Raspberry Pi, that's it.

Raspberry Pi can install the Linux system, and I am in work, can be said to be Linux half the working environment. Raspberry Pi is really a good thing, this thing should be in my study linxu/Unix time should contact. When you think about college, installing windows virtual machines under installation Linux is a pain in the way. And then the computer configuration is not high, only 2G of memory, but also to open the virtual machine. Play a ball of eggs.

Yes Linux , it's quite ripe, so start a Raspberry Pi should be able to play a lot of fun things.

Buy hardware

Directly in a treasure search to start. Required content:

• Raspberry Pi One ( Raspberry Pi 2 )
• Small USB port power supply (5V2A's charger randomly find one)
• 4G or larger SD card with storage space (Raspberry Pi itself does not have storage space)

The following are not required:

• Radiator Three pieces (fan or something that is too exaggerated)
• The wireless card (itself has a network card entry, so it is not necessary)
• SD card Reader (will be used when installing the system)

Installation system

The Raspberry Pi has been supported by various Linux distributions, and even Microsoft has windows 10 released a version that supports Raspberry Pi on its own. Most commonly, it is installed on top of the Raspberry Pi RASPBIAN Ubuntu . RASPBIANis an official Raspberry Pi based Debian Linux system. There are also likes to play on the Raspberry Pi windows 10 . All relevant systems are available for download. (https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/).

I am installing an officially provided RASPBIAN system, based on the Debian implementation. Can be said to be more Debian understanding, so RASPBIAN for me is a better choice. As RASPBIAN an example of installation, there are several ways to install it.

The Raspberry Pi official recommendation is to use its official tool to NOOBS install the tool.

1. Download NOOBS tool (https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/);
2. Download the SD card format tool (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/eula_windows/);
   1. Install SD card Format tool;
   2. Set "FORMAT SIZE adjustment" to open on in option options;
   3. Check if the SD card is plugged into the computer;
   4. Click the Format button of the formatting tool to format the SD card.
3. Unzip the Noobs.zip file;
4. Copy the extracted files to the SD card;
5. Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi;
6. Connect the mouse, keyboard, monitor (this part is not required);
7. Connect the network cable (wireless card can also), power, and then automatically boot up.

After boot, the Raspberry Pi will install the system itself, look at the SD card write speed time will be different, 10-60 minutes estimate is good. It then enters the Raspberry Pi system interface. At this point, it is done.

About the system

The Raspberry Pi official system RASPBIAN is based on a Debian change. So familiarity Debian and Ubuntu words, yes RASPBIAN there is no entry threshold at all. RASPBIANusing a Raspberry Pi's own image. Its servers in foreign countries, access may be slow situation, it is recommended to modify the image of NetEase Debian (http://mirrors.163.com/.help/debian.html).
Edit the/etc/apt/sources.list file and add the following entry at the top of the file (please make a backup before the operation)

Deb http://Mirrors.163.com/debian/wheezy main Non-free contribDeb http://mirrors.163.com/debian/wheezy-updates main Non-free contribDeb http://mirrors.163.com/debian/wheezy-backports main Non-free contribDEB-SRC http://Mirrors.163.com/debian/wheezy main Non-free contribDEB-SRC http://mirrors.163.com/debian/wheezy-updates main Non-free contribDEB-SRC http://mirrors.163.com/debian/wheezy-backports main Non-free contribDeb http://mirrors.163.com/debian-security/wheezy/updates main Non-free contribDEB-SRC http://mirrors.163.com/debian-security/wheezy/updates main Non-free contrib

Executes the sudo apt-get update update package list. You can see Debian the use help of NetEase image in detail (http://mirrors.163.com/.help/debian.html).

Conclusion

The biggest advantage of the Raspberry Pi is that it is cheap, and the data is fairly plentiful. Personal feel the greatest value is to take to learn Linux knowledge. Independent Linux machines give people a different sense of motivation and sense of accomplishment than virtual machines. Of course, in terms of playability, Raspberry Pi can also do a lot of interesting things. Daoteng aircraft, remote control toy car, controlled home appliances, control access, make super computer and so on. The main thing is to be interested. And I was trying to get raspberry sent to implement some unnecessary use of the PC, the need for a long time, or the execution of regular tasks.

Resources

• Http://mirrors.163.com/.help/debian.html
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/quick-start-guide/

[Linux] Raspberry Pi start experience and system installation