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‎EXPAND-ROOTFS - Expand Root Partition to Fill SD Card

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‎EXPAND-ROOTFS - Expand Root Partition to Fill SD Card

JimJKla at 12:12, 17 August 2012

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JimJKla: /* SSH - Enable or disable ssh server */

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‎SSH - Enable or disable ssh server

JimJKla: /* After Exiting the Menu */

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‎After Exiting the Menu

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‎After Exiting the Menu

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	EXPAND-ROOTFS does what it says on the tin so if you have installed Wheezy on a 4GB or greater card use this option and AFTER REBOOT it will use all of the SD card. The Wheezy image takes nearly 2GB so if you are going to install additional software or large files its worth doing, however you don't need to do it on first boot. The downside of using all of a larger card is that it takes much longer to backup the image.		EXPAND-ROOTFS does what it says on the tin so if you have installed Wheezy on a 4GB or greater card use this option and AFTER REBOOT it will use all of the SD card. The Wheezy image takes nearly 2GB so if you are going to install additional software or large files its worth doing, however you don't need to do it on first boot. The downside of using all of a larger card is that it takes much longer to backup the image.
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		+	NOTE it will take a while for that first reboot be patient I was circa 4 minutes for a 32GB

	== OVERSCAN - Change Overscan ==		== OVERSCAN - Change Overscan ==

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 == EXPAND-ROOTFS - Expand Root Partition to Fill SD Card ==
-This does what it says on the tin so if you have installed Wheezy on a 4GB or greater card use this option and AFTER REBOOT it will use all of the SD card. The Wheezy image takes nearly 2GB so if you are going to install additional software or large files its worth doing, however you don't need to do it on first boot. The downside of using all of a larger card is that it takes much longer to backup the image.
+This option in the raspi-config script menu does this for you you need to reboot after but the reboot can wait till you finish the other things on the menu
 == OVERSCAN - Change Overscan ==

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	Type ‘startx’ to launch graphical session		Type ‘startx’ to launch graphical session
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		+	or
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		+	Type 'sudo raspi-config' to relaunch the script

	So, if at this point you type startx followed by hitting the Enter key you will be launched headlong into a windows style environment. When you have finished work logout using the red exit button (bottom right) and then type sudo halt at the command line. Wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug. (Exiting the desktop is a bit flakey on Wheezy beta, you may find you end up with a blank screen and will have to pull the plug with a small risk of corrupting the SD card. Enabling and using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE appears to be much more reliable.)		So, if at this point you type startx followed by hitting the Enter key you will be launched headlong into a windows style environment. When you have finished work logout using the red exit button (bottom right) and then type sudo halt at the command line. Wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug. (Exiting the desktop is a bit flakey on Wheezy beta, you may find you end up with a blank screen and will have to pull the plug with a small risk of corrupting the SD card. Enabling and using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE appears to be much more reliable.)

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 Putty is free and available to download. It’s free Open source and runs on both Windows,Linux. There are other things available for Mac’s (I’m not really familiar enough but I believe there’s an option in Xterm).
-This option allows access to the Pi without a monitor attached to the Pi. OK it’s easier if you have one but let’s say you want to do some command line stuff and your partner/brother/sister whatever wants to use the TV for Corrie or suchlike. Its particularly useful for starting a VNC server on the Pi so you can use the Pi's desktop on another computer. More details here [http://myraspberrypiexperience.blogspot.co.uk/p/setting-up-vnc.html]
+This option allows access to the Pi without a monitor attached to the Pi. OK it’s easier if you have one but let’s say you want to do some command line stuff and your partner/brother/sister whatever wants to use the TV for Corrie or suchlike. Its particularly useful for starting a VNC server on the Pi so you can use the Pi's desktop on another computer. More details here [http://myraspberrypiexperience.blogspot.co.uk/p/setting-up-vnc.html] this is a link to a Blog page that douments an experience with VNC.
 Using Putty or the like is pretty straightforward. You will need to know the IP address of the Pi, either by watching the startup output as it scrolls by, typing ifconfig at the Pi's command line or terminal window, or looking at your router. The IP address is dynamic and can change, particularly if you have not used the Pi for a day or so.
 However if you are using everything from the box as is.  That is to say you have your HDMI connected to a TV and a Keyboard and Mouse on the Pi and you have the menu running then I suggest you could disable ssh just to be on the safe side security wise(note just a suggestion).
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 == FINISH - Finish config and don’t start raspi-config at boot ==

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 So, if at this point you type startx followed by hitting the Enter key you will be launched headlong into a windows style environment. When you have finished work logout using the red exit button (bottom right) and then type sudo halt at the command line. Wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug. (Exiting the desktop is a bit flakey on Wheezy beta, you may find you end up with a blank screen and will have to pull the plug with a small risk of corrupting the SD card. Enabling and using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE appears to be much more reliable.)
-If on the other hand you want to play in the rarefied atmosphere of the command line environs then type away. You are in the home directory of the pi user; typing ls followed by [enter] will display its files and directories. Directories are in blue so type cd python_games then '''ls''' to change folder and display its contents. When you have finished don't forget to type sudo halt and wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug.
+If on the other hand you want to play in the rarefied atmosphere of the command line environs then type away. You are in the home directory of the pi user; typing ls followed by [enter] will display its files and directories. Directories are in blue so type cd python_games then ls to change folder and display its contents. When you have finished don't forget to type sudo halt and wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug.
 Finally you may want to manually reboot just to allow allow the delayed configuration settings to take effect; type sudo reboot at the command line.

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 == The raspi-config ==
-When you start your Pi for the first time using the Wheezy image then, following lots of scrolling text with a couple of pauses lasting in total a few tens of seconds the raspi-config menu will appear. It has the following entries:
+When you start your Pi for the first time using the Wheezy image then, following lots of scrolling text with a couple of pauses lasting in total a few tens of seconds, you will be automatically logged in as pi with the password raspberry and the raspi-config menu will appear. It has the following entries:
   info			Information about this tool
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   memory_split		Change memory split
   ssh			Enable or disable ssh server
-  boot_behaviour         Start desktop on boot?
+  finish			Finish config and don’t start raspi-config at boot
- update                 Try to upgrade raspi-config
+  <Ok>						<Exit>
-  <Select>						<Finish>
 == Moving Around the Menu ==
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 At any point from within any of the menu or sub-menu options the Tab key will toggle about the selected entry and the options at the bottom inside angle brackets, cursor keys move up and down menus. There is an exception to this and that’s with the change_locale option, ignore that exception for now it’s covered later.
-Some of the menu entries take quite a while to display. The user experience looks like its running a desktop but in fact it isn't; its using the command line and its graphics capabilities (remember VDU's?) so occasionally the screen will scroll a bit.
+Some of the menu entries take quite a while to display. The user experience looks like its running a desktop but in fact it isn't; its using the command line and its graphics capabilities (remember VDU's) so occasionally the screen will scroll a bit.
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 raspi-config appears automatically at first boot. You can run it at any time after that by typing sudo raspi-config (case sensitive) at the command line or in a terminal window. The sudo (do as superuser) is necessary because you will be changing files that you as user pi do not own, its Debian's way of providing a root login.
-The lovely thing about the Pi is that, if you mess up, it will not be difficult to re-image.
+The lovely thing about the Pi is that, if you mess up, it will not be difficult to re-image; killing the install may require a re-image (check this).
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 Televisions do not usually display the whole of the picture, they Overscan and crop off a few percent of the image. This is to hide the data signals such as teletext which use the outer lines of the picture (could be a hangover from analogue TV). Computers, including the Pi, use all the lines for real display so often the image displayed by computers on TV's is cropped.
-To avoid losing the critical left column at first boot the clever Pi people have deliberately enabled Overscan and used positive Overscan vlauses to make the displayed image smaller, and to play safe much smaller. This means, depending on your monitor/TV, there may be black borders around the picture. LXDE will show the wrong resolution in its display information as it shows you the size of the framebuffer (display_size - overscan).
+To avoid losing the critical left column at first boot the clever Pi people have deliberately enabled Overscan and used positive Overscan vlauses to make the displayed image smaller, and to play safe much smaller. This means, depending on your monitor/TV, there may be black borders around the picture. LXDE will show the wrong resolution in its display information as it shows you the size of the framebuffer (display size-overscan), and the display may be a bit fuzzy.
 On some displays, particularly monitors, just disabling Overscan will make the picture fill the whole screen and correct the resolution. For other displays it may be necessary to leave overscan enabled and fiddle with Overscan values, more information here [[R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Big_black_borders_around_small_image_on_HD_monitors]].
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 == CONFIGURE-KEYBOARD - Set keyboard layout ==
-Slow to display and, if you select some of the non-default options, there will be a short delay while changes are made. Changes take effect immediately except for changes to X-server exit which require a reboot.
+Slow to display and, if you select some of the non-default options, there will be a short delay while changes are made. Changes take effect immeadiately except for changes to X-server exit which require a reboot.
 This menu for using different attached keyboards. Brands of keyboards are chosen first followed by other choices to set up nationality of keyboards etc.
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 The next screen is a useful one and the on screen documentation is actually quite clear provided you know what is meant by “X server” so here’s an outline:
-If you choose to boot to the command line (see later) then after loogin the Pi will tell you that you can run startx.  Startx is the command to run the windows (like) screen where you use a mouse to select options.
+When you have finished your install the last line of the start-up will tell you that you can run startx.  Startx is the command to run the windows (like) screen where you use a mouse to select options.
 This is the X server and to get back to command line (that’s all the typed stuff) you can use [Ctrl][Alt][Backspace] all pressed at the same time to shut down this X server screen; you can always restart it by typing “startx”.  Always handy if you have a flaky mouse or are using a wireless mouse that eats batteries.
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 change_locale		Tell the computer if you need non English characters.
-Sheesh! a computer aimed at children and new users and then you expect them to know what locale means (Google's your friend?).
+Sheesh! a computer aimed at children and new users and then you expect them to know what locale means (google's your friend?).
 This menu option gives you a massive list of choices that look like they were written by one of the infinite monkeys of legend (goggle infinite monkeys Shakespeare if you don’t understand this reference).
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 == SSH - Enable or disable ssh server ==
 This change takes effect when???
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 ssh means 'secure shell'. It is a communication protocol which will allow you to log into the Pi from another computer on your network using a program like Putty to provide a command line interface in a terminal window.
-Putty is free and available to download. It’s free Open source and runs on both Windows and Linux. There are other things available for Mac’s (I’m not really familiar enough but I believe there’s an option in Xterm).
+Putty is free and available to download. It’s free Open source and runs on both Windows,Linux. There are other things available for Mac’s (I’m not really familiar enough but I believe there’s an option in Xterm).
 This option allows access to the Pi without a monitor attached to the Pi. OK it’s easier if you have one but let’s say you want to do some command line stuff and your partner/brother/sister whatever wants to use the TV for Corrie or suchlike. Its particularly useful for starting a VNC server on the Pi so you can use the Pi's desktop on another computer. More details here [http://myraspberrypiexperience.blogspot.co.uk/p/setting-up-vnc.html]
-Using Putty or the like is pretty straightforward. You will need to know the IP address of the Pi, either by watching the startup output as it scrolls by, typing sudo ifconfig at the Pi's command line or terminal window, or looking at your router. The IP address is dynamic and can change, particularly if you have not used the Pi for a day or so.
+Using Putty or the like is pretty straightforward. You will need to know the IP address of the Pi, either by watching the startup output as it scrolls by, typing ifconfig at the Pi's command line or terminal window, or looking at your router. The IP address is dynamic and can change, particularly if you have not used the Pi for a day or so.
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-However if you are using everything from the box as is.  That is to say you have your HDMI connected to a TVT
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 Using Putty or the like is pretty straightforward. You will need to know the IP address of the Pi, either by watching the startup output as it scrolls by, typing sudo ifconfig at the Pi's command line or terminal window, or looking at your router. The IP address is dynamic and can change, particularly if you have not used the Pi for a day or so.
-However if you are using everything from the box as is.  That is to say you have your HDMI connected to a TV and a Keyboard and Mouse on the Pi and you have the menu running then I suggest you could disable ssh just to be on the safe side security wise(note just a suggestion).
+However if you are using everything from the box as is.  That is to say you have your HDMI connected to a TVT
-COMMAND LINE
+== FINISH - Finish config and don’t start raspi-config at boot ==
-When powered up the pi stays in the command line (the big black screen). After lots of scrolling text you will be asked for your username and password. If this is successful information about the last Login is displayed which is useful for finding out if it was you, your son/daughter/grandmother/cat was the last to login and screw up your Pi.
-Then you get the standard copyright and NO WARRANTY message the latter just legalese for “your doing this at your own risk” that kind of goes without saying.
+If you select <Ok> from this option then on all future startups you won't get the raspi-config menu. If you choose <Exit> then the next time you start you are going to get this menu again automatically.
-    Type ‘startx’ to launch graphical session
+== After Exiting the Menu ==
-So, if at this point you type startx followed by hitting the Enter key you will be launched headlong into a windows style environment. When you have finished work Logout using the red exit button (bottom right). Since you started from the command line this menu has only the Logout option which takes you back to the command line. To halt you must type sudo halt or to reboot sudo reboot. For halting wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug.
+OK let's assume you have happily worked your way through this and you selected OK for the final menu option.
-If on the other hand you want to play in the rarefied atmosphere of the command line environs then type away. You are in the home directory of the pi user; typing ls followed by [enter] will display its files and directories. Directories are in blue so type cd python_games then ls to change folder and display its contents. When you have finished don't forget to type sudo halt and wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug.
+You are going to get the text that is displayed each time you login to your Pi:
-== FINISH - Finish config and don’t start raspi-config at boot ==
+Then the key line.
-If you select <Ok> from this option then on all future startups you won't get the raspi-config menu. If you choose <Exit> then the next time you start you are going to get this menu again automatically.
+    Type ‘startx’ to launch graphical session
-== After Exiting the Menu ==
+If on the other hand you want to play in the rarefied atmosphere of the command line environs then type away. You are in the home directory of the pi user; typing ls followed by [enter] will display its files and directories. Directories are in blue so type cd python_games then ls to change folder and display its contents. When you have finished don't forget to type sudo halt and wait until 'System Halted' is displayed before pulling the plug.
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-OK let's assume you have happily worked your way through this and you selected OK for the final menu option.
-−
-You are going to get the text that is displayed each time you login to your Pi:
-−
 Finally you may want to manually reboot just to allow allow the delayed configuration settings to take effect; type sudo reboot at the command line.