Banana Pi: the operating system install
You need at least an SD card with 4 GB.
- First download the Win32 Disk Manager , download and install it.
- There are different operating systems, which can also be used. A selection you will find here.
- Because the Images with a Linux version compressed, you will need 7-Zipto the Image to extract.
- Now extract the Image. You will get a .tar file, uncompress it, as well.
- After you open the Win32 Disk Imager, select your Image. Make sure that as a "Device" is really your SD card is selected.
- Now you can launch the SD-card into your Banana Pi, plug it in and this.
Banana Pi: System set up
Banana Pi: First Time Setup
Connect to your Banana Pi using a Lan cable with your network so you can configure It. In the Following, is used as the operating system Raspbian.
- First of all, you must find out the IP address of your Banana PI. Because of these logs in by default as "Lemaker" the DHCP, open the CMD-prompt and use the command "ping lemaker".
- Using Putty you can now access your Pi. To do this, open Putty and type in "Host Name (or IP adress)" the IP address of your PI.
- In a window that now opens, you can log in. You can use as a user name and password that is "bananapi".
- With "sudo raspi-config" to open the options Manager by Raspbian. Now you can e.g. change your password, language change, or in the advanced options for the host name to customize.
- You should expand the file system. The result is that larger cards (to be recognized over 4 GB) as this and used.
- Reboot your Banana Pi, you can customize It more.
Connection to Pi connect
If you choose Raspbian as the operating system, you can use your Banana Pi in the same way as a raspberry Pi. So you can use it with the Wi-Fi connect or your Pi as a FTP Server set up.
