Pi-Chrome Project

Lesson 5 - First Boot of Raspberry Pi

Objective: To boot up the Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS installed and set up a user with superuser privileges.

Materials: Ethernet Cable, Keyboard w/ USB Connection, Micro SD card w/ Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS Image, Monitor w/ HDMI Connection, Mouse w/ USB Connection, Raspberry Pi, USB-C Power Supply

Now that we have the image of the Ubuntu Linux 22.04 operating system on our micro SD card, we will make all of the necessary connections to the Raspberry Pi and boot it up for the first time.

Connect the USB-C power supply, mouse, keyboard, and monitor to the Raspberry Pi. Connect one side of your Ethernet cable to your Pi and the other side to an active network ethernet port. Make sure you are using the Main micro HDMI connection on the Raspberry Pi - this will be the one closest to the USB-C connection. Also, insert the micro SD card into the Raspberry Pi. See the images below for more detail.

Energize your USB-C power supply by plugging it into a standard 120V outlet. NOTE: If you purchased a kit, your kit may have also come with an inline power switch.

As your Pi is booting up, you should see a bunch of lines of text with [OK] in green. Eventually, you should see a login screen. Type ‘ubuntu’ for user and ‘ubuntu’ for password. You’ll immediately be required to change the password. Go ahead and change your password to a new strong password. You will then be greeted to the Ubuntu server login page. You will notice serval metrics displayed. The key one we want to focus on now is the ‘IPv4 address for eth0’. In the picture below, you can see that mine is 192.168.0.32. This will most likely be different for you and is the internal IP address that the router assigned to your device. This IP address is dynamic and can and probably will change the next time you turn your Raspberry Pi on. Record this address on a piece of paper, as we will need this to log in to the Raspberry Pi with our Chromebook.

That’s it for this lesson! In the next lesson, we will log in wirelessly to our Raspberry Pi for the very first time using our Chromebook.

Resource Links:

Wikipedia's Article on Password Policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_policy

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