This tag covers everything related to setting up the Raspberry Pi including flashing SD cards and changing the default user.
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How long does it take to perform the initial update?
I just ran sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade on my pi to update for the first time. It's still going at it, and I was just wondering if I should be worried since it's been 1 hour and ...
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Setting up Bluetooth dongle
Hi Im trying to get my Bluetooth dongle set up. When I search for it using lsusb, the following comes up in the terminal:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device ...
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Hadoop Installation on windows 7 [closed]
-bash: ssh-copy-id-: command not found
-bash: /home/sjc/.ssh/id_rsa.pud: No such file or directory
are the errors while using ssh-keygen during installing on windows 7 ?
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Can I run Mac OS X on the Raspberry Pi?
If I understand correctly, the Raspberry Pi does not run OS X. Is there a way to get OS X run on the Raspberry Pi?
Do other boards like the Raspberry Pi exist that can run OS X?
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How to add applications to the Raspbian wheezy Dock?
Is it possible to add applications to the dock in Raspbian Wheezy?
As I have become more used to Debian, I have begun to look for ways to make it more easily usable. In Windows and in Mac OSx I am ...
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Is there a system that i can run that can seamlessly pull audio and video files from a flash drive?
I noticed that a lot of people are asking about video performance capabilities and things along those lines, but they all seem to be either streaming their videos through Ethernet via Youtube, etc or ...
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How do I change the editor used by visudo?
I would really like it to be vi or vim. I mistakenly typed some vi commands in the default editor for visudo, which I believe is nano, and broke /etc/sudoers so badly I think I am going to have to ...
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How can I get twitter updates to showup on my desktop as some sort of news feed like RSS?
I want to see if I can get twitter updates to showup on my desktop. I have been looking at different APIs so I can get the updates myself, but I want to know if there is something ready made and easy ...
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Resize image file before writing to SD card
I've been trying to create a new Raspbian image with a different kernel (with CAN support) and with Python 3.3 installed. Rather than doing all of this on the Raspberry Pi, I thought it would be ...
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Building a minimal Linux for Raspberry Pi
Now I got my Raspberry Pi. I am an experienced application software developer, but I've never done hardware stuff or low-level programming before. I want to build a minimal Linux, including drivers ...
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XBMC settings sync on Raspbmc
How can I sync the settings of XBMC on my Raspbmc with the XBMC which I've installed on a computer or Android phone, on the same LAN?
Thanks
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Fedora remix not working with rca cable
When I use Raspbian I can start my Raspberry Pi with my analogue TV connected over a RCA cable. After I installed Fedora remix I don't get anything on screen.
Does anybody know how to fix this?
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Could the raspberry pi be used for stimulus presentation in psychological experiments?
I am a cognitive psychologist / neuroscientist. In a lot of the experiments that I run I have participants - mostly undergrads - sit at a computer and respond to certain combinations of visual ...
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How do I set up a windows NFS server to serve my media to RaspBMC [tutorial]
Following on from my woes at trying to use Samba to share media from my windows machine (SMB performance issues on Raspbmc) i thought i'd try (and share) my knowledge of getting my Windows XP Pro ...
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Cacaoweb on Raspbmc
Is it possible to install cacaoweb on Raspbmc?
I know it can be installed on Linux (see cacaoweb.org), and I know I can share links to my Raspbmc through my mobile phone (i.e. YouTube links).
How ...
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Raspcontrol at start up?
I have following scenario. I cloned Raspcontrol via git, and the repo is now located in /home/pi. Using ls, I can see the Raspcontrol folder. Inside, there's a start.sh for it to run. I decided to ...
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What is the lowest power, most compatible, most compact usb wi-fi adaptor that works out of the box with the Raspberry Pi?
It seems that several people (myself included) are having great difficulty getting different wi-fi adapters to work reliably with the Pi. Some adaptors seem to require excessive amounts of power and a ...
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How can I zoom out the HDMI output in order to fit in areas of the screen that are being clipped?
At present every time I load up my RasPi via HDMI the edges of the screen are clipped, making it difficult to see what is being typed at the bottom of the screen and to read output on the left side.
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Set up Pi, but nothing appears on monitor.
I just got my Pi today (the 512 mb model, make in the UK), and I've so far been unable to do anything with it. I plugged it in to my TV using my hdmi cable, hooked up a super simple keyboard, and ...
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Raspberry Pi stuck at splash screen
I am stuck at the splash screen. In the top right of the screen there is an image of a Raspberry.
When I first power on the device, I get the colored screen, and then I get the image of the ...
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How do I get the serial number?
Where can I find the serial number of the Raspberry Pi I am currently using?
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How do I make 'beep' work over HDMI
After adding hdmi_drive=2 in the /boot/config.txt and rebooting I can get audio playback when typing sudo aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav. After sudo install beep I can not get the beep ...
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nginx + php5-fpm + htdocs on USB
None of the configurations that I've looked up can help with setting up Nginx to serve PHP files on a mounted USB folder. I'm currently getting file not found when I try and access a PHP file on the ...
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What cool things are we doing with the Raspberry Pi? [closed]
I'm curious about buying and trying out the Raspberry Pi! I'm a moderately experienced linux user. Would love to hear what applications people are using the computer for at home or other, and just ...
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Why doesn't `dd` create partitions when copying the Raspberry Pi disk image?
I'm trying to install one image of the download page of the Raspberry Pi here but when executing the steps on the page after the dd command it does not create the partitions on the SD card. Am I ...
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Starting ssh automatically at boot time
I'm following a number of tutorials that explain how to setup an SD card that boots automatically enabling ssh in the process. I'm doing this as I only have a laptop and no spare keyboard, screen, ...
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How can I use a PC laptop or Mac Book to run a Raspberry Pi?
I want to let some smart programers play with a few Raspberry Pi boards at an event I am running. They will all have laptops and internet access. We probably won't have access to keyboards and screens ...
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How can I change the pi user password?
I will be needing to access my pi while I am away from home, and SSH would be good for this purpose. I am using it with password authentication, I don't want to mess around with SSH keys. However I ...
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How can I change the bash screen resolution to custom values?
I installed archlinux-arm on the RPI.
I have a TV, which has 1680x1050 resolution. Where can I change the bash settings to fit the screen correctly? I also want to the boot screen (where I can see ...
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How do I access the distribution's name on the command line?
I have a number of distros I'm playing with. I label the SD cards, but:
They are in upside down
I'm usually in another room from the RPi
I set up a service in init.d which lets me know via ...
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Custom Raspbian image fails to boot with “no init found”
I'm building a custom SD image of Raspbian using debootstrap, and the resulting image fails to boot with Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. on both my Raspberry Pi and under qemu. I can ...
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Do_ssh failing in initial setup
I set up my Pi, and I get output to a screen / keyboard working etc.
However, when I run raspi-config, and pick the SSH option I get
Initial ssh key generation still running. Please wait and try ...
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Which locale should I select during the Raspbian setup?
I've downloaded the newest Raspbian release and it is a little bit different than the original one.
In particular, it gives a whole bunch of options to configure it the first time you boot it up. I'm ...
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How would I write a one-off boot script?
I would like to run a script that would run only on the first boot. For example, Tom could use it to generate unique SSH certs in How can I copy the same image to many SDs?.
I was thinking that I ...
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How do I expand a raw disk image?
The official images supplied are raw disk images, which could have been created using dd.
How do I make an image bigger? I'm not interested in repartitioning said image as that has already been ...
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How do I change the IP settings by mounting the SD card in another computer?
I'm away from a network and unable to use my RPi.
I've got a laptop with a SD card reader, would it be possible to mount the SD card in the laptop and configure the ethernet interface on the Pi with a ...
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How do I get my bluetooth keyboard to pair automatically before I log in?
I asked how to install bluetooth, so I can use an existing mouse and keyboard. I was able to get that to work, but the keyboard ceases to function when the GUI is logged out.
That means that I still ...
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How do I install an OS image onto an SD card?
I have just ordered my Raspberry Pi, and I want to prepare my SD card. How do I install an OS image onto an SD card?
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Are there step by step tutorials for beginners on things like setting up bluetooth or SSH? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bluetooth keyboard/mouse for surfing internet on my TV
Is there a step by step for using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse with RasPi? Or SSH?
I've seen the forum posts ...
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Is it possible to update, upgrade and install software before flashing an image?
It seems silly to use our limited SD write cycles to upgrade the software shipped on the images. Can we upgrade the software and install new software before flashing an image to the SD card?
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Raspberry Pi as a Linux firewall?
Can I use the Raspberry Pi as a Linux firewall?
Can anyone tell me the best way of doing this? Including network connection details and hardware I may need.
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What password to use to log in after the first boot?
The first time I boot up my Raspberry Pi I get a login screen.
What username and password should I use? That is, what is the default password for Raspberry Pi?
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How can I access my mini-pc (RaspberryPi) via ethernet/wifi without having Monitor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to gain remote access without a Monitor or TV?
Well I have already asked the question here so am confused whether to post it again or not. Just to keep things ...
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How do I configure the Raspberry Pi to boot with an NFS root?
How can I make my Raspberry Pi use an NFS server for the root filesystem, instead of the SD card?
I'd like to be able to set up my Raspberry Pi to have its root file system on a remote machine via ...
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How can I protect against intrusion and malware before connecting it to the internet (especially on a public IP address)?
With the large number of Raspberry Pis in the wild, and the fact that large groups of them are configured identically (when a newly-flashed SD card is installed with one of the few available images), ...
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How do I create a new user?
Are there any security implications for creating (or not creating) a new user?
If need be, how do I create a new user or change the default user?
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How do I install new software?
I am aware that Linux distributions usually have 'package managers' to allow me to download and install software from the command line and that I should also be able to download and compile source ...
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Is it possible to dual boot from the SD card?
Say I wished to have Debian Squeeze and Arch Linux ARM on my SD card. Would it be possible to dual boot from Grub?
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How do I resize my debian partition?
I've seen advice here for resizing, which is fine if you have another linux distribution to work with.
How can I do resize the partition otherwise? Are there any Windows tools for example?
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Can I install Windows?
I recently bought a RPi and it came with Debian, which I think is a Linux distribution. I'm more used to Windows; can I install it?
