The default password for root user is 'root'. Now you can see the awesome black login screen. Once you are done here, insert the sd card into your Pi and fire it up. In case you are wondering how I got the /dev/mmcblk0 bit, I just mounted the sd card and check the output of df -h command. If you are using a sd card of more than 2G memory, then I recommend using gparted or anything else and expand the size of the file system since by default it'll be just about 2G and rest of your space will go unused. No, cp command is not supposed to be used here because cp copies over the file system and we have to do something at much more lower level.
# dd bs=4M if=~/archlinux-hf-.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 Either use dd command for this or use a tool like ImageWriter. Once you are done with the download, you need to extract it and transfer the. Raspberry Pi's processor is ARMv6 so you cannot just use any Arch variant. So here I am going to discuss how I managed to get Arch up and running with XFCE, a login manager and a web browser.įirst off, download the Arch Linux from Raspberry Pi downloads page.
ARCH LINUX RASPBERRY PI INSTALL
Arch Linux install guide at elinux is pretty good but it only helps you to get bare bones Arch up and running. I then moved on to try Arch and the fun began. I started off by installing Raspbian which worked out of the box (what fun it is! :( ). I wanted one so bad and it took so long before I got to play with it that by the time I got it, I was pretty much drooling over it. I recently got a Raspberry Pi from RS online store. Instructions in this post are no longer valid.
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