A couple months ago I decided I have to have a raspberry pi. After two long days (amazon prime) I received my device. I looked at it and then wondered what on earth am I going to do with this thing. A few days later into the drawer it went. Today is the day, I will do something with this device!

#Task get it running and remotely connect

First thing first I need to pull out of the box, plug in ethernet and power.

I don’t have access to the TV right now as Rudolph is on, let’s see if we can do this without a screen.

To the google I found a guide for connecting via ssh. This sounds exactly what I want to do.

Install homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Run nmap

nmap -p 22 --open -sV 192.168.1.*

No hosts found, guess I should see what is on the screen (during a commercial of course).

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We appear to have noobs not raspbian.

Time to install the os via sd card reader since I can’t find a keyboard and mouse.

I wanted to run rapbian so off to the google to find the download of the OS Image.

Again back to the google and find an install guide

Since I am running el captain my disk utility looked a bit different but after running “First Aid” I was able to see similar details in the guide. Illustration from Doing something with a Raspberry Pi (2)

Filling in the command line with the downloaded img and disk details

sudo dd bs=1m if=2015-11-21-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/disk2

…waiting…

This process can take a long time if you want to see some progress type ctrl-t

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Queue sponge bob one hour later, it finished and we have the partitions setup Illustration from Doing something with a Raspberry Pi (4)

Time to eject and I hope this all works.

#Success Illustration from Doing something with a Raspberry Pi (5)

We have something running on the raspberry pi!

Now back to the nmap command to see if we can ssh into the device.

nmap -p 22 --open -sV 192.168.1.*

Nmap scan report for raspberrypi (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

We have a host!

Now to ssh into the device

ssh pi@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx is the ip from the nmap output)

Answer yes to the prompt and enter in the default password of raspberry

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Sat Nov 21 21:35:33 2015
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

#YES!

Now it is time for bed.

Mental Recap

  • used the dd command to transfer data from an img to an sd card
  • boot up the rasbian os
  • run nmap to find the ip address of the raspberrypi
  • ssh into the device