{"id":21,"date":"2013-07-14T21:47:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivanx.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2023-09-10T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:52:05","slug":"a2cloud-prepare-your-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/a2cloud-prepare-your-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Prepare your Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; text-decoration: underline;\">Starting Fresh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">If you have never used your Pi, you will need to prepare your SD card. Download <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"Raspple II\" href=\"http:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/rasppleii\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">Raspple II<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0(a distribution of the Raspbian operating system with Apple II goodies preinstalled), and expand the .zip file. Copy all of its files to a 4 GB or larger SD card (8 GB or larger recommended). Then put the SD card in your Pi, and attach power.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">The operating system will automatically install, which will take about 20 minutes.<\/span>\u00a0If you don&#8217;t have a screen attached to your Pi, you&#8217;ll know when it&#8217;s done when the ACT\/OK lamp on the Raspberry Pi board stops flickering.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">(If you are starting over with the same SD card, or want to ensure the card is formatted correctly, you can use the official\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcard.org\/downloads\/formatter_4\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">SD Formatter<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0utility &#8212; carefully! &#8212; before copying the files.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you&#8217;re already up and running, or want to customize the installation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can also install A2CLOUD from the Raspbian command line. Type:<\/p>\n<p><code>wget appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/setup; source setup<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you want all the features, answer &#8220;Y&#8221; to the questions. Then be patient, as it takes a little while to install.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Fresh If you have never used your Pi, you will need to prepare your SD card. Download Raspple II\u00a0(a distribution of the Raspbian operating system with Apple II goodies preinstalled), and expand the .zip file. Copy all of its files to a 4 GB or larger SD card (8 GB or larger recommended). Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appleii.ivanx.com\/a2cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}