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The first project of this semester, I am installing the wheezy operating system onto one of the raspberry pis in the class.

1. The raspberry pi is really neat! Putting the Pi together was simple:

These are all of the necessary components to put the raspberry pi together.

This is the raspberry pi completely put together.

2. Next, to install the operating system onto the sd card!

• First, I had to download the zip file containing the distro.
• I then extracted that image using unzip
• Just to check to see if the sd card was mounted, I ran df -h. It wasn't, so I ejected it and put it back in, ran the command and it was there!
• According to the tutorial, if the name of the mounted sd card ends in p1 or a 1 (/dev/mmcblk0p1 or /dev/sdd1), that represents the partition number and the distro will be written to that partition, but if you want to write to the entire sd card, then you must remove that from the name.
• Next, I unmounted the sd card so that nothing can interfere with the sd card during the writing process using umount followed by the name of the sd card (/dev/mcblk0p1, /dev/sdd1, etc.).
• The image is then written to the sd card using the dd command (REMEMBER TO REMOVE THE P1 OR 1 FROM THE SD CARD'S NAME).

josh-Aspire-5750Z ~ # dd bs=4M if=~/2013-07-26-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

• Lastly, run sync to flush the write cache and make it safe to unmount the sd card and we good!

3. Finally, we can now set up the linux distro and set the correct settings.