Just
before Christmas I've been to a “traditional” electronics and
surplus fair,
here in Genoa, and bought myself, among other things, a Raspberry PI
3 (version B) board. My goal is to replace, as home server, the
Raspberry PI I bought
two years ago in order to take advantage of the more computing power
offered by the new board. Additionally the older board will be set
free for more “experimental” experiments. As “accessories” to
my new Raspberry board I bought a (clear) plastic case, a 16GB micro
SD card and en external 2.5'' USB hard disk.
Installation and
first tests
I
first downloaded latest Raspbian
release, the “Lite” version since I'm going to use it as a
headless server. Like I did last time I copied the disk image on the
16GB SD card using the “dd” command.
sudo dd if=2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/sdd
All
worked fine but I had to fix a couple of things. The image I copied
at the first tentative didn't boot, I had to remove all memory card
partitions using Gparted then
repeat the copy process. The disk copied after the second tentative
works fine, I don't know if problem was because a failure in the
first copy or because of how the card was pre-formatted.
The
latest Raspbian release
has SSH demon disabled by default to enable it I had just to add an
empty “ssh” named file on the memory card root folder.
touch /media/maxx/boot/ssh
