Thursday 15 October 2015

installing the operating system

Installing Raspberry Wheezy, onto a Raspberry Pi Mk2 using a Mac powerbook os 10.9.5

Download Raspbian Wheezy
 - download here 
Download Pi-filler
  - download here

install onto a SD card using Pi-filler.
Start up raspberry pi attached to a monitor, with mouse, keyboard attached and wifi adapter .
- the wifi adapter used is this one 

ELEMENT14  WIPI  WLAN USB Module for Raspberry Pi
avalible here




now boot up your pi, when it boots up you are presented with


choose 

1 Expand Filesystem
7 Overclock  (overclocked to raspberry pi version 2)
8 Advanced options

A6 SPI 


turn on SPI as defualt, and load it by default



select <Back> then select <Finish>

reboot the pi and start the graphic enviroment

raspberrypi login: pi

password:             raspberry

then type               startx

which brings up the raspberry pi desktop



when the desktop loads move the mouse to the network icon, top right, and click. Input your wifi password, press return.



If you've typed the password correct a wireless icon is displayed.



alternatively you can connect the pi to the internet by simply plugging in an ethernet cable from your modem/router.













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