Chapter 1. Getting Started with a Raspberry Pi Computer

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Connecting the Raspberry Pi

• Using NOOBS to set up your Raspberry Pi SD card

• Networking and connecting your Raspberry Pi to the Internet via the LAN connector

• Configuring your network manually

• Networking directly to a laptop or computer

• Networking and connecting your Raspberry Pi to the Internet via a USB Wi-Fi dongle

• Connecting to the Internet through a proxy server

• Connecting remotely to the Raspberry Pi over the network using VNC

• Connecting remotely to the Raspberry Pi over the network using SSH (and X11 Forwarding)

• Sharing the home folder of the Raspberry Pi with SMB

• Keeping the Raspberry Pi up to date