Ras Pi: Installing an OS

Installing the Raspbian image to your SD card from Linux. 

[windows/OSX users click here] - I can write these instructions up, but I feel like most of you who are playing with a Pi must already be using linux machines. However my blog stats show that almost all of you readers are win/mac guys so I continue to try to include Windows instructions... I strongly suggest checking out my guide to installing linux for beginners! You wont regret it!

Download the Raspbian image here and save to your home directory.

Open your terminal and get ready for a few simple commands:

Automatic TV, Music, (and possibly Movies) Download Server on Raspberry Pi

I have been playing with the raspberry pi rev.1 for a few days now, and I have decided that it has just enough power to run a SABnzbd+, Sickbeard, Couchpotato, Headphones server.

With the extra memory on the rev.2 board I figure I can allocate it to the CPU and probably squeeze out a little more speed in the unrar process for SABnzbd.

So... I ordered a new board from modmypi and am awaiting shipment at the moment.
I have made some progress on the rev.1 pi, but have run into lots, and lots of permissions issues with my nas4free 7.2 file server. Hopefully as time goes on I will be able to compile a nice easy guide to setting up a PiServer for all of you.

Lets get started:

RasPi Server [2of2] - Installing mySQL

After a little searching I used the instructions found on this blog  to install the mySQL server to my Raspberry Pi.

Right now it looks like his blog is down so I can't finish this writeup!

The process is pretty easy though. Since mySQL is already listed in normal debian repositories, you can just run a few generic commands and fix any dependencies as you go!

SSH into your pi [windows users use putty]

ssh root@ip.address.here

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password 'your root password here'

mysqladmin -u root -h 'your hostname here' password 'your root password here'

mysql -u root -p

This should ask you for the password you just set up and the mySQL terminal interface will appear.

You now have mySQL running on your Pi!!!

Further Configureation

I don't think I have the mySQL skills yet to write up an effective guide for configuring a new database from scratch on the command line. However, you should be able to do it pretty easily. You are already 99% of the way there. The only remaining steps to synchronize your XBMC installations are creation of a new database, uploading a config.xml to each XBMC box, and populating the database by scanning in a new library. Check out the XBMC wiki on the subject.

RasPi Server [1of2]- Installing Raspbian to your Raspberry Pi

After toying around with Raspbmc, the XBMC distribution for RasPi, I decided that I would try turning my Pi into a mySQL server for syncing jailbroken apple tv 2's running XBMC throughout my house.

Why? Because my server currently runs freeNAS 7.2 which uses sqlite rather than mySQL. I have not been able to get a solid mySQL server running in freeNAS 7.2, and I want one. Rather than installing to one of my windows/linux terminals, I wanted to utilize a low power always on device... thus the Raspberry Pi mySQL server.

Building a Keyboard computer from a Raspberry Pi

Here is another great idea for using a Raspberry Pi as a low power, low profile computer. The guys over at Hack A Day found this cool rundown about cramming a Rasp Pi into a nice Cherry mechanical keyboard.

The original page is in German, but the google translate is good enough to read most of what is going on, and the idea is simple enough that you can infer from pictures.

Raspberry Pi - Unboxing

My Ras Pi finally arrived a week or two ago, but my summer courses have been killer!
By now you have almost certainly seen about a million unboxing videos and other such posts.

Well here is another one...

(Bonus: you don't have to go to youtube and listen to me talk like an idiot while I open a box!)

ChromeOS on Raspberry Pi

Get ready to be inundated with Raspberry Pi build articles!
As the production and shipping ramp up, more and more developers are getting their hands on the little $35 ARM powered miracle.

Little more than a proof of concept at the moment, ChromeOS is being ported to the Raspberry Pi by Hexxeh. This is a very cool step forward! I would love to see a really solid little homebrew chrome box built from the Ras-Pi. Currently, chrome does little more than boot, but we hope to see the lightweight OS running fully on the Ras-Pi very soon!

Via - liliputing
Source - chromium.org