You can find out the IP address of the RPi by checking your router admin page. Ssh -Y (using the password “raspberry” without the quotes – the “-Y” means you can open graphical programs off the RPi on your own screen, but running in the RPi’s context)Īnd you’re logged in. I’m also comfortable with dd now (having been burnt a couple of times earlier – alcohol and /dev/urandom do NOT mix well), and opted for the command-line approach.Īfter you plug the prepared SD card into the RPi and power it on, a quick: I picked Raspbian as I use Ubuntu and am familiar with the Debian way of doing things. Simply download the image and ‘burn’ it onto the SD card. So here’s a quick run-down of the steps involved in – drum-roll – setting up a Raspberry Pi-powered headless media server and NAS! A reasonable number of wireless ‘client’ devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones) around the house, just to make the effort worthwhileĪfter this epiphany, getting the whole setup in place was a mere matter of ploughing through the numerous guides published on the interwebs and the odd all-nighter spent figuring out why things didn’t work.An externally powered USB HDD of a reasonable capacity (500 GB, in my case).An Ethernet cable (hello, dusty old Sky router box! What’s this left unused inside you for the last 2.5 years?)īeyond these, the other required ingredients of this tasty dish are (and some of these may seem obvious):.An SD card (or microSD card + SD adapter) of 4+ GB.A power supply (for which a BlackBerry charger, or any other microUSB charger, will do just fine).An SD card reader (which my laptop already had).The only items really required to get the RPi up and running are: The only hitch was that I had the board, but no peripherals at all. Recently unemployed and looking for things to do, it was the perfect way to get started on some reasonably techie hobbyism (that’s a word now). The best part of the kit was the Raspberry Pi Model B. (As an aside, I was so moved by this, that I felt ashamed of taking the easy route of giving my giftee just a T-shirt, and made amends by signing up for re-matching and sending another gift to someone else.) One of the best gifts I’ve ever received to date is the End Of The World Survival Kit from my 2012 Reddit Secret Santa.
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