Boot the Pi for the First Time
Preparing the hardware and installing an operating system are important, but it’s much more fun to actually boot the Raspberry Pi and see what it’s capable of. So, insert the SD card you prepared in the previous chapter, and plug in the power supply.
If you’ve worked with Linux before, you’ll recognize most of the messages pouring onto the screen. This comes as no surprise, because even if the Pi is an unusual computer, Raspbian still is an ordinary Linux distribution.
When you boot Raspbian for the first time, it starts a configuration program named Raspi-config. This program helps you configure the most important aspects of the Linux system. You can see its main menu in Figure 10, Raspi-config makes most ...
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