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\"Raspberry<\/a>A couple of months ago, I wrote about getting started with Raspberry Pi<\/a>\u00a0but I have to admit it wasn’t exactly successful. In true open source style the Raspberry Pi FAQ (since updated) contradicted the downloads page\/quickstart guide and an official blog post suggested that Fedora was the recommended distro<\/a>. \u00a0I had some issues with Fedora, not least that a graphical login seemed to fail (there’s a forum post that suggests why that might be a problem<\/a>) but also with getting hold of Scratch (which is something I want to use the Pi for, with my sons).<\/p>\n

Last night I tried again, reflashing my Pi’s SD card using the Debian 6 “Squeeze” distro from the Raspberry Pi downloads page<\/a>. There are various tools to do this (I used Win32DiskImager<\/a>, also recommended on the downloads page, although the Softpedia download site is UX disaster, but Linux and Mac users already have dd<\/code> and there is a Windows port of dd<\/code> that Element 14 are\u00a0distributing<\/a>).<\/p>\n

With the SD card flashed, I booted the system, logged in (username pi<\/code>, password raspberry<\/code>) and set about resizing the 2GB image to fill my 8GB SD card. \u00a0There’s good advice for resizing flash partitions on the Embedded Linux Wiki<\/a>\u00a0and the steps I took were:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Edit the partition table:
    \nsudo fdisk -cu \/dev\/mmcblk0<\/code>
    \np<\/code> (to view the partition table)
    \nd<\/code> (to delete a partition)
    \n3<\/code> (to select partition 3)
    \nd<\/code> (to delete a partition)
    \n3<\/code> (to select partition 2)
    \nn<\/code> (to create a new partition)
    \np<\/code> (to make it a primary partition)
    \n2<\/code> (to create partition 2)
    \n157696<\/code> (to set the starting position to match the old partition table – see the output from the p<\/code> command earlier)
    \nPress the Enter<\/code> key (to set the maximum available partition size)
    \nw<\/code> (to write the partition table)<\/li>\n
  2. Then, reboot:
    \nsudo shutdown -r now<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. After logging in again, resize the partition:
    \nsudo resize2fs \/dev\/mmcblk0p2<\/code><\/li>\n
  4. Finally, check the new size:
    \ndf -h<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With a working system, I launched the LXDE graphical user interface with\u00a0startx<\/code><\/a>. and found that there is a decent amount of software (including Scratch, Python, etc.) already installed. It’s also possible to\u00a0access the Raspberry Pi remotely<\/a>\u00a0and run the GUI on another system with X Windows\/SSH.<\/p>\n

    Back in the command line, I wanted to install a twitter client (so that my Pi can tweet status updates) and Twidge is my favourite (CLI-based) client on a Linux system<\/a>. \u00a0Romilly Cocking has written about installing Twidge on the Pi (Tweety Pi!)<\/a>\u00a0but I found I needed to run sudo apt-get update<\/code> before I could successfully complete the sudo apt-get twidge<\/code> command (without the update, there were lots of 404 errors for missing dependencies). As I was running Terminal inside the LXDE environment, I could use Midori to authorise Twidge via the Twitter API, completing the twidge setup<\/code> process, before sending a couple of tweets. \u00a0If you don’t like Midori, I couldn’t find a suitable version of Firefox but I understand Google Chromium can be installed on the RasPi<\/a> using the sudo apt-get install chromium-browser<\/code> command).<\/p>\n

    I’m much happier with the Pi now it’s running Debian – and tonight’s activity involves creating a case for it out of an old business card box (an Altoids tin won’t fit!) – watch this space for more details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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