Daily archives: 2012.08.16


Raspberry Pi – SSH and static IP

By the time I received my RasPi, I didn't have an usb keyboard yet, so my first concern was about how to use it without the keyboard from the very first boot. It wasn't clear whether the ssh daemon would be active by default or not, and I've also got to know that for some distributions, or even among different updates of the same distribution, its default state changed over time.
I found out that in Raspbian, ssh is installed by default but it's not configured to start up automatically since the first boot.
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Raspberry Pi – Preparing the SD card

Download the image:

First step would of course be that to choose and install a linux distribution on the SD card.
I'm personally a RedHat/Fedora user since quite some time but I thought, for the RasPi, to give Debian a go. I decided to install Raspbian “wheezy”, an optimised version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi, and it comes with LXDE as default desktop environment, for those who care about it.
You can download the image from the RaspberryPi Downloads page.
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