This script simplifies installing several similar Raspberry Pi systems.
Contains the commented config.txt file for the Raspberry Pi further developed for a CoderDojo in Lund, Sweden.
Also contains installation scripts for BSDTar, Avahi, TightVNC-Server, XRDP, Scratch2MCPI, Rhino, RLWrap, BYOB, Links, Commodore 64 with Comal 80, ABC 80 with Snake.
Avahi is used with Bonjour from iTunes in Windows, but is built-in to Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux. You can extract the Bonjour installation program from iTunes using an archive manager that handles rar-files, e.g. 7-zip. Use the correct version of iTunes for your Windows! i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit. The purpose of Avahi is to configure IP-numbers without a DHCP-server and to be able to use names of computers without a nameserver, e.g. dojopi1.local. This makes it possible to connect a Raspberry Pi to a laptop with a single ethernet-cable or via a simple hub. You can also switch on network sharing and use the laptop's Internet connection via WiFi or 3G from the Raspberry Pi.
One feature of this extension of the original OS is that you can use a laptop as a keyboard, mouse, and screen to a Raspberry Pi using RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). It's better and faster to use a directly connected screen, but we usually don't have access to screens.
See "Enabling Remote Desktop Access with xrdp on a Raspberry Pi":
http://www.maketecheasier.com/enabling-remote-desktop-access-on-raspberry-pi/
See "RPi XRDP Server":
http://elinux.org/RPi_XRDP_Server
See "RPi VNC Server":
http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server
In Ubuntu Linux I use Remmina Remote Desktop Client for RDP. For Mac OS X
Microsoft Remote Desktop
probably works for RDP. RDP is built-in to Windows
See "Extend Minecraft Pi Edition using JavaScript via Java":
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=552802#p552802
See "Installing BYOB in Raspbian":
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=62781
One way is to install Raspbian using an image, see this guide.
Another way is to use NOOBS. First you unpack NOOBS on an SD-card. You can use Windows or Mac OS X for this, but below is shown for Raspbian Linux.
Skip to next heading if you have a new, blank SD-card.
Use this to list partitions:
sudo fdisk -l
Use Parted or FDisk to remove all partitions from the SD-card you want to format and create a new, bootable W95 FAT32 (LBA) partition, see this guide or check this example:
$ umount /dev/sdx1 # Change sdx1 to the device you will use.
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdx
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-6): 1
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-6): 2
Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 3
Command (m for help): d
No partition is defined yet!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdx: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 486192 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000825fe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
Using default value 1
First sector (2048-31116287, default 2048):
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-31116287, default 31116287):
Using default value 31116287
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdx: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 486192 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000825fe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdx1 2048 31116287 15557120 83 Linux
Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): l
0 Empty
1 FAT12
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 83 Linux
3 XENIX usr
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 85 Linux extended
5 Extended
6 FAT16
7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
8 AIX
9 AIX bootable
a OS/2 Boot Manag
b W95 FAT32
c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Hex code (type L to list codes): c
Changed system type of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdx: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 486192 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000825fe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdx1 2048 31116287 15557120 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Command (m for help): a
Partition number (1-4): 1
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdx: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 486192 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000825fe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdx1 * 2048 31116287 15557120 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.
End of example.
Format and name the SD-card:
sudo mkdosfs -n dojopi1 -F 32 -I /dev/sdx1
(You may need to do umount /dev/sdx1 before. Change sdx1 to your partition and the name dojopi1 to what you like.)
Remove and insert the USB SD-card reader/writer in order to mount automatically. Use this to find out where it is mounted:
mount | grep -i sdx1
Stream NOOBS down to the SD-card using this for small NOOBS files:
curl -sL http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS_latest | bsdtar -xvf- -C /media/pi/dojopi1/
alternatively this for big NOOBS files:
cd /media/pi/dojopi1/
curl -Lo NOOBS_latest.torrent http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS_latest.torrent
ctorrent -p 51414 NOOBS_latest.torrent # Change 51414 to your listen port.
rm NOOBS_latest.torrent
unzip NOOBS_v1_7_0.zip
rm NOOBS_v1_7_0.zip
If you are going to install NOOBS on several SD-cards you may want to unzip the files to all the cards before you remove the zip-file.
unzip NOOBS_v1_7_0.zip -d /media/pi/dojopi2/
Boot with NOOBS SD-card, keyboard, mouse, and screen. After boot use 1, 2, 3, and 4 to select HDMI, HDMI Safe, PAL, and NTSC, respectively. If you need to select video out again, press and hold Shift during boot. Install Raspbian from NOOBS.
Configure using Raspberry Pi Configuration (RC_GUI) or RasPi-Config. Check that SSH is on. In the future this configuration should be built-in to the upgrade.sh-script.
Install the rest of the programs by using this oneliner in the home directory (requires network):
cd; git clone https://github.com/mobluse/coderdojo-raspbian-sv.git; . ~/coderdojo-raspbian-sv/upgrade.sh
Check that sound works using e.g. Scratch -- if it doesn't, right click the speaker icon (near the clock), and select Analog or HDMI.