RasPi First Boot October 19, 2012
Posted by truthspew in Uncategorized.Tags: computer, Debian Wheezy, First Boot, http www youtube, Raspberry Pi, technology
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After the trials and tribulations of stuffing the Debian Wheezy operating system image onto the SD card I finally got it to boot.
And it hit me – this is Debian – which means all I need now are a long Ethernet cord, got the keyboard and mouse on it already and the power – get this, the front of my Motorola Cable box has a USB port on it. So I plugged into that and lo and behold, it puts +5V and GND out! Yay!
And it got me to thinking. Right now I’ve only got an 8GB card in there. But people have used 32GB and 64GB cards. I can use RasPi for the wireless MESH I’m putting together. I’d have to get a USB hub so I can create a second network adapter but one of these little RasPi’s could be the SquidProxy and DansGuardian server. All solid state, nothing to really wear out. And it costs $35, with the external net adapter it goes to maybe $55. That isn’t bad – < $100 and you can just flash the whole thing on an SD card.
Very cool!
If you haven’t seen the “HackRF Jawbreaker” yet, google it.
Wow – pricepoint around $300 too. That’s pretty sweet for a full up transceiver.