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There was some questions about where to go next when the PI package arrived. I worked through that this morning and have successfully pinged wetnet.net which I consider a good start...
Here's what I've done. This is the Windows process...
* Purchased a package of PI rev B, case, power module and cable - http://www.amazon.com/gp/
* mkdir /work/pi
* Downloaded the Raspbian Wheezy image from the link at http://www.raspberrypi.org/
* Extracted iso image from .zip file
* Downloaded the SHA-1 calculator tool as described at : http://downloads.raspberrypi.
* Opened CMD window; cd /work/pi; ran calculator on the unpacked image. Yeah - it matches.
* Downloaded win32diskImage tool from http://sourceforge.net/
/work/pi/win32diskimage ;
* Inserted 8 GB Sandisk SD card - Class 6(10 MBs - not great but it's what I had and it was on sale...)
* ran win32diskImage.exe - selected SD card. Selected .iso image. "WRITE" - it said 'success'.. Yeah!
* Essentially followed quick start instructions from : http://www.raspberrypi.org/
- HDMI from PI to TV
* USB keyboard to PI
* 8 GB SD card to PI
* Power cable from PI to power module. Power Module to outlet...
* TV to PI - it's there (YEAH!) and Linux is booting.
* First time there was some setup steps. Interesting but I'll get that later.
* Switched PC from client on the (NW-MESH) network back to Server - Internet Connection Sharing from the Telephone Internet Dongle..
* Network cable from PI to the WRT54G. ..wait.. ifconfig shows 172.27.0.x - YEAH! we're on the net.
* ping wetnet.net - YEAH! it works.
* df -h . ; shows only 1.5 G disk. Hmm - how to get back to that one time config screen? Wasn't hard to find: "sudo raspi-config"
- expanded the file system
- advanced
+ enabled SSH
+ renamed hostname from 'raspberrypi' to 'pi1'
* rebooted - YEAH - now have the full 8 GB available.
# that's the main setup. Here's a couple more items to check out the system.
* checked to see how it compared to the pogo series 4 server. cat /proc/cpuinfo - 700 bogomips, That's close to the 800 bogo's of the pogo. Good enough!
* wondered if if did online updating. Yes - 'sudo apt-get update' worked. 'sudo apt-get upgrade' wanted to bring in 80 MB of upgrades. It's not a good time on the marginal network so I tested bringing in one of the listed packages with a simple "sudo apt-get install
nfs-common". I see now that Raspbian is a Debian branch so the apt-get tool chain is to be expected.
