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[[Category:RaspberryPi]]
[[Category:Raspian]]

As of July '12 Raspian is the recommended operating installation for the Raspberry Pi.[http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads]
== Installation ==

Flash your RPi with a vanilla build of Raspian using [http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Copying_the_image_to_an_SD_Card_on_Windows].

Connect to your TV, keboard, mouse, network cable and apply power to the RPi micro USB.

== First Boot ==
Raspian will boot to an installation screen (INSERT PIC HERE).
Here you can scroll up and down using the keyboard arrows and select a menu item using the Enter key.

Navigate through each menu item and select the options and preferences depending on your requirements.

Here's mine. No value means I didn't enter the menu and left the defaults as is.
* info:
* expand_rootfs: '''YES'''
* overscan:
* configure keyboard:
* change_pass: '''yes, enter new password'''
* change_locale: '''en_GB'''
* change_timezone: '''Europe / London'''
* memory_split:
* ssh: '''yes enable'''
* boot_behaviour: '''boot to CLI'''
* update:

=== SSH ===
I mostly connect to my RPi via SSH from another Linux PC.

I previously used the same PC to SSH in this RPi when it had a different distribution, attempting to connect to the new install highlighted that the SSH key no longer matched.

<pre>
pi@192.168.0.20
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
fe:86:2e:6a:85:33:ee:e5:20:ca:0d:a4:db:e3:91:da.
Please contact your system administrator.
</pre>

If you see this message, just follow the instructions to remove the old keys and then retry the connection to generate new valid keys.

<code>ssh-keygen -f "/home/jack/.ssh/known_hosts" -R 192.168.0.20</code>

== References ==
#[http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads Raspberrry Pi Foundation Downloads]
#[http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Copying_the_image_to_an_SD_Card_on_Windows elinux Copying_the_image_to_an_SD_Card_on_Windows]