Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Setting up the Raspberry Pi
Now that your Raspberry Pi has launched the
Raspberry Pi Software Configuration
Tool
, it is time to use it to get your Raspberry Pi up and running.
Resizing the root filesystem of your
Raspberry Pi
The first thing that you need to do is expand the filesystem of your Raspberry Pi
to the full size of your SD card. If you don't do this, you won't be able to use the
rest of the storage on your SD card.
To do this, make sure that the
Expand
Filesystem
option is selected. Now, simply
press the
Enter
key. Your root partition that stores the Raspbian operating system will
now be enlarged to the size of the SD card. You will then see the following menu:
This message indicates that you have successfully resized your root partition
Changing the default password for the
Raspberry Pi
The default user password for Raspbian is
pi
. This is not very secure and you might
want to change this to something else. The
Raspberry Pi Software Configuration
Tool
makes it extremely easy to do this.
1.
Select the
Change User Password
option and then press
Enter
.