Install + configure minibian from Mac

minibian-setup.md

Prepare SD card

• Download MiniBian
• extract MiniBian .img
• insert SD Card
• use disk utility to format the card with fat32
• check from terminal (OSX) which disk the SD Card is using diskutil list
• unount SD Card: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX where X is what you found out last step
• copy image to SD Card: sudo dd bs=1m if=<path to the .img file> of=/dev/rdiskX
• wait until dd is finished
• diskutil diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX

Connect to the Pi

• Disconnect Power from RPi
• insert SD into your RPi
• Connect Power
• Check your Router which IP the RPi got (for example: 192.168.1.10)
• login with SSH ssh [email protected] (default password: raspberry)

Configure

• update apt sources: apt-get update
• install raspbian config tool: apt-get install raspi-config
• raspi-config (configure everything, expand file system etc ...)

Create a user

• install sudo: apt-get install sudo
• create a user: adduser <username> and set a password
• edit sudoer file: nano /etc/sudoer and add this line: " ALL=(ALL) ALL" under the line "root ALL=(ALL) ALL"
• logout from ssh exit and then login again using <username>@192.168.1.10

Configure Go

• install golang: sudo apt-get install golang
• add export GOARM=5 to .bashrc or .zshrc and source it (to make go build use ARMv5)

Direct ethernet connect with internet

• System preferences > sharing, set it on with, "Share your connection from Wifi" > "To computers using ethernet"
• Connect the Pi and the mac using their ethernet ports and then turn on the Pi
• In System preferences > network, the ethernet connection should be green with some random address assigned. Wait a few seconds until the Pi finished its boot process
• Use arp -a to check arp table entries and get the Pi IP. You should see something similar to :

➜  ~  arp -a
? (192.168.2.1) at XX:XX:XX:XX:62:a5 on en1 ifscope [ethernet]         #ether interface
? (192.168.2.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on en1 ifscope [ethernet]       #ether interface broadcast
? (192.168.3.2) at XX:XX:XX:XX:7b:63 on bridge100 ifscope [bridge]     #bridge (internet sharing) with Pi assigned IP addr
? (192.168.3.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on bridge100 ifscope [bridge]   #bridge broadcast

• Go ahead and ssh to 192.168.3.2 which is the IP that get assigned to the raspberry pi