Raspberry Pi – OS Installation

and Interface
SHAMSHUDEEN J

IoT workshop 8th Jan 2018 to 12th Jan 2018

C-DAC Chennai
 Index
• Downloading Raspbian OS
• Copying OS to SD card
• Booting OS in Rpi
• Configuration
• Remote access
• nano- text editor

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 Downloading OS
● Raspbian OS
– Raspbian Stretch with Desktop
● 1.6GB

● Graphical User Interface

– Raspbian Stretch Lite

● 348MB

● Command Line Interface

– Official link:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

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 Copying OS
● Extract the downloaded .zip file to .img file
● Download Etcher and install it
● Connect SD card reader with the SD card inside
● Open Etcher, select .img file and select SD card
● Click “Flash” to begin writing data to the SD card
● SD will unmount automatically after completion of writing data.

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 Booting OS
● Insert SD card to Rpi
● Connect HDMI to VGA converter
● Connect USB micro-B to Rpi
and turn On Power
● PWR LED – Power On
● ACT LED – SD card activity

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 Rpi Configuration
● “sudo raspi-config” in terminal or select Rpi
configuration from Preferences

● Change default username and password

● Enable ssh,spi,i2c, camera

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 ● Set Keyboard layout to “US (international)”
● Set Timezone to “Asia/Kolkatta”
● Reboot to accept changes in configurations

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 Remote access
● Connect to wifi
● use “ifconfig” to check IP address
● SSH(secure shell) provide command line interface to
remote machine. SSH to Rpi from host PC
– Linux: “ssh uname@ipaddress“ and enter
password when prompted
– Windows: use putty application
– Android: Termius app
● VNC (Virtual Network Computing) provide graphical
remote access
– Linux, windows, android: VNC viewer
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 nano text editor
● Simple text editor to work with Rpi through ssh

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● Other editors: vi, vim

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 Commands for Rpi
Command Description

free -m RAM usage

df disk memory usage

give admin privileges to
sudo
following command
sudo apt-get update update package list

sudo apt-get upgrade upgrade if any available

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade OS upgradation

kill all instances related to
sudo killall processname
that process
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 Command Description
check network parameters
like MAC address, IP
ifconfig
address and connected
network SSID
dpkg -l list installed linux packages
list system background
dmesg
messages
cat filename display content of filename
list all running instances of
ps -A | grep processname
processname

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 Questions ?

Thank You.

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