Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Logging in to Your Raspberry Pi
While your Raspberry Pi is booting up, you will see a lot of text moving very quickly on
the screen. This tells you that the operating system is loading. It looks a little crazy, but
don't worry; you are not supposed to be able to read it. If something ever does go
wrong, this text can be helpful to see where in the process the error occurred.
Once the start up (boot) of your Raspberry Pi has taken place, you will see the follow-
ing prompts asking you to log in with your username and password:
raspberrypi login:
password:
The default user for the Raspberry Pi on Raspbian is called
pi
, and the default password
is
raspberry
, so type
pi
for your login name at the first prompt and
raspberry
for your
password in the second and press Enter.
Like many computing devices, you won't be able to see what you type into the password
box for security reasons. Don't worry if you make a mistake, you will get another go.
After you log in and provide the password, the following text will appear:
pi@raspberry ~ $
The Raspberry Pi is asking you to give it a command. Type
startx
, as shown in
Figure 1-8.
FIGURE 1-8
Logging into Raspberry Pi and starting the desktop environment
The window shown in Figure 1-9, called Xwindows, will load. Congratulations! You've
reached the
graphical user interface
for the Raspbian operating system. Read on to
explore the interface a bit.
