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SD card preparation
SD card preparation
The Raspberry PI boots off an SD card. You can either prepare it yourself, or you can give the SD card to BELS staff and pay a small fee (about $10) for the service.
- Do it yourself:
- Download the lite version of Raspbian, using the link for the 2016-03-18 version or later.
- Unzip it.
- Install it on the SD card according to this installation guide.
- Ask BELS:
- Go to BE66 (in Baskin Engineering), and look for Ping, or for one of his colleagues.
Laptop preparation
Laptop preparation
Make sure that your laptop has some good terminal application available. On Macs, I recommend iTerm. On Windows, you can tryConEmu or cmder. You can also install Cygwin (several gigabytes, do this ahead of time), which can make your system half reasonable to use. Or you can also install virtualbox and Ubuntu Linux in virtualbox, but I digress.
Make sure that your laptop has some good terminal application available. On Macs, I recommend iTerm. On Windows, you can tryConEmu or cmder. You can also install Cygwin (several gigabytes, do this ahead of time), which can make your system half reasonable to use. Or you can also install virtualbox and Ubuntu Linux in virtualbox, but I digress.
If you don't have a terminal program installed, you will likely not be able to do the boot camp.
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