My Pi 3 Install Log (1): Raspbian Jessie (Lite)

Big advanced from first 2 gen, Pi 3 got a Quad core 64bit Broadcom processor A53 using ARM v8a instruction set, with 1GB RAM supposed to be processing power.

Still, I want it for an embedded project, so instead of the complete Raspbian, I downloaded the lite version: zip file size ~300MB expanded to 1.3GB.

"...the lite distribution is just a Minimal image based on Debian Jessie without the X-server and its components installed. "

"... similar to arch linux.."

"Size-wise lite is 1GB smaller (300MB vs 1.32GB)"

installing Raspbian Jessie (2.5 hours)

ref: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md

using dd command to write to a 16GB sd card

(Note rdisk2 not disk2.  disk2 when plugged into a mac)

 someone said make sure it's formatted as MSDOS.  not sure why.  

# first time boot-up

resize partition to maximum (df shows 15304884 blocks @1k;  839M/15G used)

# Login

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/users.md

default account:

 username: pi

 password: raspberry

# update
sudo apt-get update

(now 882M used)

# change locale and timezone - default en_GB, @ and " swapped

sudo raspi-config

# selected en_CA.UTF8

# wifi country to canada

# keyboard layout 105 keys, en US

## (if want arch linux, see https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-pi-3)