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    Raspberry pi getting started guide rs components vsn 1.0 3/2012.

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 2.

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 3 1. Raspberry pi basic hardware setup 1.1. Extra hardware you will need the raspberry pi board contains a processor and graphics chip, program memory (ram) and various interfaces and connectors for external devices. Some of these devices are essential, others...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 4 1.3. Operating system sd card as the rpi has no internal mass storage or built-in operating system it requires an sd card preloaded with a version of the linux operating system. You can create your own preloaded card using any suitable sd card (4gbytes or ab...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 5 1.7. Cables you will need one or more cables to connect up your rpi system. Video cable alternatives: o hdmi-a cable o hdmi-a cable + dvi adapter o composite video cable o composite video cable + scart adaptor audio cable (not needed if you use the hdmi vide...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 6 2. Raspberry pi advanced setup (geeks only) 2.1. Finding hardware and setting up you'll need a preloaded sd card, usb keyboard, tv/monitor (with hdmi/ dvi/ composite/scart input), and power supply (usb charger or a usb port from a powered usb hub or another ...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 7 2.2.4. Super easy way using minicom run minicom with the following parameters: minicom -b 115200 -o -d port_name 2.2.5. Gui method with gtkterm start gtkterm, select configuration->port and enter the values above in the labelled fields. 2.2.6. Windows users ...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 8 building a new dos disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) ===============...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 9 in this case a 128mb card is used (reported as 128450560 bytes by fdisk above), thus 128450560 / 255 / 63 / 512 = 15.6 rounded down to 15 cylinders. There are 255 heads, 63 sectors, 512 bytes per sector. So far so good, now we want to create two partitions: ...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 10 device boot start end blocks id system /dev/sdc1 * 1 51 409626 c w95 fat32 (lba) /dev/sdc2 52 245 1558305 83 linux command (m for help): w the partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Warning: re-reading the partition ta...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 11 2.4. Setting up the boot partition the boot partition must contain: bootcode.Bin : 2nd stage bootloader, starts with sdram disabled loader.Bin : 3rd stage bootloader, starts with sdram enabled start.Elf: the gpu binary firmware image, provided by the founda...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 12 from windows you can copy the full sd card by using win32diskimager. Alternatively, you can use the following instructions; note: many built-in sd card readers do not work, so if you have problems use an external sd-usb adapter for this. 2.9. Required softw...

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    Raspberry pi getting started guide page 13 to copy an image named "theimage" to the sd-card do this: dd-removable bs=1m if=theimage of=\\?\device\harddisk1\partition0 your disk name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 2.12. Software development/proving a supported platform for the raspberry is qt , whic...