raspberrypi-tools

Getting Started

Prepare your Raspberry Pi disk with Raspbian

1. Download Raspbian
2. Write the image to disk. There are plenty of ways to do this. Here is one of them:

# if you have pv and want to watch paint dry
dd bs=1m if=2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie-lite.img | pv | sudo dd of=/dev/disk2
# if you do not
sudo dd bs=1m if=2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/disk2

Bootstrap your Raspberry Pi

Login to your Raspberry Pi to bootstrap and provision it.

1. Bootstrap and provision using the bootstrap tool

# Adafruit-Occidentalis takes care of a lot here, then we do a little bit more.
# Inspect if you are paranoid.
curl -SLs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mystopia/raspberrypi-tools/master/bin/bootstrap | less
# Install when you are ready.
curl -SLs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mystopia/raspberrypi-tools/master/bin/bootstrap | sudo bash

1. Setup a hostname and WiFi by editing /boot/occidentalis.txt