Raspbian PI “wheezy”

Raspbian “wheezy”

If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.

Default login Username: pi Password: raspberry

Linux System Instructions to Create Boot SD Card

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

Download the zip file containing the image
Verify the zip file using SHA-1
Filename:
2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip.sha1

SHA-1:
b4375dc9d140e6e48e0406f96dead3601fac6c81

$ sha1sum -c 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip.sha1

2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip: OK

unzip
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determine SD card device name
mine is /dev/mmcblk0p1
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dd the image to the SD Card – change mmcblk0p1 !!!
dd bs=4M if=2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip.sha1 of=/dev/mmcblk0p1

check progress:
find pid
ps aux | grep dd

my pid is 4149
$ kill -USR1 4149

77+0 records in 77+0 records out 322961408 bytes (323 MB) copied, 45.8116 s, 7.0 MB/s

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Optional check what’s written to the SD card by dd-ing back to HD and comparing
sync &
umount SD card and insert in Raspberry Pi




More info: Beginners’ guide.