• Find an available desktop or laptop computer with an SD card reader/writer.
• Insert the SD card for your Raspberry Pi into the computer’s SD card reader/writer.
• Point a web browser at the Raspberry Pi downloads site (http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads).
• Download, install, and run the SD Card Association’s formatting tool from the link provided at the Raspberry Pi downloads page.
• Use this software to format the SD card properly for use with the Raspberry Pi.  Make sure to click the Option button, select “Full (Erase)” from the Format Type: field and select “On” from the Format Size Adjustment field, then click the OK and Format buttons.

• Go back to the Raspberry Pi downloads site to get the OS image.

For the best experience, use the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS) to install the operating system image. There are many Linux distributions for Raspberry Pi, but NOOBS makes it easy to try them all from a single SD image.

• Download the NOOBS image and extract its contents onto the SD card.
• Eject the SD card from your computer and insert it into the Raspberry Pi.
• Plug in the USB hub’s power supply.
• Plug in the Micro-USB power supply to power up the Raspberry Pi.
• After a few moments, NOOBS will boot and present you with a simple OS Installation menu.
• Set Language to English (US)
• Select the “Raspbian” operating system and then click Install OS. NOOBS will install Raspbian onto your SD card and will then reboot.

Keep default settings but set GUI desktop to start automatically. At the end of the first reboot, the Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool will appear. All the defaults are fine, except we recommend setting the GUI desktop to automatically start up after boot.

• Default User name/Password is pi/raspberry
• On the Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool, move the highlight down to the “Enable Boot to Desktop/Scratch” item and press Enter to select.
• On the “Choose boot option” prompt, move the highlight to “Desktop log in as user ‘pi’ at the graphical desktop” and press Enter to select.
• Back on the Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool, move the highlight to “Advanced” and press Enter to select.
• Select A4, Enable SSH server,
• Select Enable
• Back on the Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool, press the right arrow key to highlight “Finish,” then press Enter twice to reboot.
• Upon rebooting, the Raspbian graphical desktop will appear.

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VNC Service

Another way to access the entire Raspberry Pi desktop remotely is to install VNC server on Rasberry Pi. Then access the desktop remotely via VNC viewer. Follow instructions below to install VNC server on your Raspberry Pi.

After the VNC server is installed, run this command to start the server.

This command will start VNC server for display number 1, and will ask for a VNC password. Enter a password (of up to 8 characters). If you are asked to enter a “view-only” password, just answer it no (‘n’). The VNC server will make a configuration file in the current user’s home directory. After that, kill the VNC server process with this command.

### BEGIN INFO
# Provides: vncserver
# Short-Description: Start VNC Server at boot time
# Description: Start VNC Server at boot time.
### END INIT INFO

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/vncserver
export USER='pi'
eval cd ~$USER
case "$1" in
start)
   su -c 'vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768' $USER
   echo "Starting vnc server for $USER";;
stop)
   pkill xtightvnc
   echo "vnc server stopped";;
*)
   echo "usage /etc/init.d/vncserver (start|stop)"
   exit 1 ;;
esac
exit 0

Modify the file permission so it can be executed.

Run the following command to install the init.d script with default run-level.

To connect via VNC Use <IP Address>:1, i.e.:

192.168.1.120:1

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Shut down the Pi and unplug it. (If you plug anything into the USB port while it is running you will cause it to reset because of the power surge.

sudo shutdown -h now

Now that you are in via VNC & SSH, unplug the keyboard and plug the WiFi Dongle in its place.

“WiFi Config” is right on the desktop. Run it and set up the WiFi, it is pretty easy.

Get the WiFi IP and test VNC and SSH on it.

Now this will not survive a reboot, so carry on to make it autostart:

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

#Most of the required stuff was put in there by the GUI app, but not all,

Add:

auto wlan0

So that it looks like:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

Now reboot to see if it comes up on boot!

sudo shutdown -r now

Test VNC & SSH, and then unplug the keyboard and Ethernet and reboot again to see if we can work “cordless” (we still need power, but this is the idea anyway).

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Install SimpleIDE?

• In the Raspbian desktop, open the Midori web browser and go to the Propeller Raspberry Pi page; the top of this page.
• Download the SimpleIDE Raspberry Pi binary.
• Open the LXTerminal application. It should start up in your home directory right where Midori just saved the download. Type “ls” to verify.
• Use bunzip2 to unzip the archive by typing “bunzip2 -vv SimpleIDE_0-9-45_armv6l-RaspberryPi-Linux.tar.bz2” into the LXTerminal. (The actual file name may very). NOTE: For a shortcut to excessive typing, after entering the first unique letters of the file name “Simp,” press the tab key to auto-complete. Be patient, it will take more than five minutes to unzip.
• Then extract the files from the resulting tar file by typing “tar -xvf SimpleIDE_0-9-45_armv6l-RaspberryPi-Linux.tar” into the LXTerminal. Once again the tab key shortcut can be used to save on typing. This extraction process will take about two minutes.
• Move into the resulting SimpleIDE… folder by typing “cd SimpleIDE-0-9-45” into the LXTerminal. (The actual folder name may very).
• Run the setup script by typing “sudo ./setup.sh install” into the LXTerminal. This installation process will take about two minutes.

Run SimpleIDE

• When installation is complete, run SimpleIDE by typing “simpleide” into the LXTerminal (from within the folder of the previous step).
• Verify and clear any first-time-run prompts. (Click “OK” on  any prompts about file location!)

• Connect your Propeller Activity Board to the external USB hub.
• Select the proper USB port in SimpleIDE’s port field.
• Now you can compile and download your code to the Propeller.