Month: February 2016

I’ve had a Raspberry Pi model B for a couple of years and have used it as the basis for a number of projects, and blogged a number of getting started tips and other topics. As I just got a shiny new Rasberry Pi 2, I went back to find some of my prior posts on setting up and customizing some basics.

Here’s a few of my posts that are pretty useful to get up and running:

• Writing disk images to an SD card on the Mac
• Changing default keyboard locale and timezone – raspi-config
• Expanding file system after writing image to SD card – see option in raspi-config
• Configuring a static IP
• Configuring WiFi
• Changing the main memory/gpu memory split

Installing ReactOS in VirtualBox for a test drive. A few notes:

• Attached harddisk image only seems to be detected if using IDE, not SATA
• Insert the VirtualBox GuestAdditions cd after installing, and run the Windows 32 bit guest additions
• Default network card of Intel Pro/1000 does not get detected with VirtualBox Guest Additions, change to PCNet FAST/III instead
• New, supported apps (like Firefox) can be installed via the ReactOS Application Manager