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Get started with A Raspberry Pi and Write image to SD card

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How to get a Raspberry Pi in Singapore? Actually you can buy one online, or go to Cybermind Computer House Pte.Ltd @Sim Lim Square, #06-20.

It’s $59 SGD for a Model B. This is what I got. The size of a credit card, shorter than iPhone.

Raspberry Pi Model B                    things you need to set up rip                  rpi_setup

Then I downloaded the wheezy raspbian SD card image from Raspberry downloads. (on my Mac) If you are a Windows users, you can simply use a tool win32diskimager to write the image onto a SD card.     Then you need several things to first set up your Raspberry Pi.

  • USB keyboard. USB mouse(optional)
  • 5V power supply
  • USB hub with power supply(Keyboard will consume current, causing some problems.)
  • HDMI cable
  • TV or other display that allows HDMI input
  • SD card. At least 2G according to forum, but I use 8G Sandisk SDHC card.

As a mac user, you can directly run Terminal to write the image. Type in these command lines in Terminal:

df -h                    #this is a list of all your drives . Then insert SD card onto Mac.

df-h                     #this is a renewed list of all the drives including SD card. By comparison we can know the disk name of SD card.

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s1          #eject the SD card if says dis1s1

sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Desktop/****.img of=/dev/rdisk1         # use dd command to write the ***.image, SD card name is rdisk1 accordingly.

sudo disktuil eject /dev/rdisk1

Then insert SD card to Rpi, connect with TV and power supply. When set the system configuration, enable SSH to allow remote control.Select Time zone and language.

A Raspberry Pi is ready now!~