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Installation of Raspbian Jessie (Debian 8) on a micro-SD Card

A fast microSD is recommended (classe 10).

First Login for Raspberry Pi settings

Connexion

Two ways to defined the IP address of the raspberry:

  1. by consulting the list of IP addresses connected to your router (or Internet box)
  2. by the sniffing of your Ethernet network with a specific software (exemple Advanced IP Scanner])

Logon with a terminal emulation software like http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html\Putty

login : pi
password : raspberry

Update and configuration

Login as root

sudo su

Execute an update the operating system

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Run the command to configure the Raspberry Pi

raspi-config
Expand Filesystem
Enable SPI
Enable I2C
Enable Serial

Adjust Date/Time

If you want that the beacons of your repeater are broadcasting in local time, do not forget to setup the Time Zone with the utility raspi-config : Menu Internationalisations Options, and Change Timezone

Next after the setting of the time zone of Paris, you will see this confirmation message:

Current default time zone: 'Europe/Paris'
Local time is now:      Mon Jan 18 00:00:43 CET 2016.
Universal Time is now:  Sun Jan 17 23:00:43 UTC 2016.