Tinkering..

The setup instructions are all over the place on the Internet. Here's the condensed and simplified instructions to setup your Raspberry Pi.

I chose Arch Linux ARM because QtonPi is dead and the other images do not give you as much control. On Mac OS X the following instruction should get you set up with the SD Card Image.

• Download Arch Linux ARM using BitTorrent.
• Checksum sha1sum ~/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.zip and compare to string provided. Same? Good. No? Redo.
• cd Volumes ls locate the SD Card.
• df -h and copy its name. Mine was /dev/disk3s1
• sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk3s1
• sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img of=/dev/rdisk3
• Wait patiently until the write to SD card is completed.

You will need a lot of pieces - collect them all from your spare parts box (charger, mouse), your computer (monitor, keyboard, mouse), your mobile phone (charger), your camera (SD card - formatted as above), and your TV (monitor).

When you plug in the power, a red light should turn on. The rest of shinny bright lights should all turn on. Check your screen and see if there is a Raspberry. Wait for it...

It will prompt for login.

• Username: root
• Password: root

• Update packages pacman -Syn
• Install LXDE pacman -S lxde xorg-xinit xf86-video-fbdev
• To run a LXDE session xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

Congratulations, you can download more programs and optimize it to your liking. It's just like what you'd do on the Mac. Enjoy!