Software: Install Hivetool Pi image

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Download Image

Download latest image currently hivetool073.zip rev. 0.7.3 as of 2-3-2016 Caution this zipped image file is large at 1,894,183 megabytes, consider bandwidth of internet connection. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_3xqxGS2psWN1hTSmk5SldJSms

Calculate MD5 sum of zipped image: 

md5sum hivetool073.zip

f1618e26ff1b03dfc2fae722e537b6d2 hivetool073.zip

Un Zip

Copy the image to the SD card

Make micro SD card on Unix/Linux system

Recommend 16 gig with 48 mbps or better Detailed instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Linux_.28including_on_a_Pi.21.29

  1. Determine the device for the card reader (/dev/mmcblk0 on my laptop).
  2. Copy the image to the SD card:
    dd bs=4M if=2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

Make SD card on Windows system

raspberrypi.org recommends using: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ But be careful. REMOVE any other USB memory devices from your computer. Detailed instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Windows

  1. REMOVE any other USB memory devices from your computer.
  2. Plug in SD Card and confirm device letter using Windows Explorer.
  3. Start Win32DiskImager
  4. Browse to source file (image in downloads directory)
  5. Check MD5 hash (0c1f26195db2f1a158bd88e95448fedb)
  6. Click on Write
  7. Confirm successful write then exit
  8. The SD card image is called "boot" 25 files now visible in Windows explorer
  9. Windows will report 40 megabytes free space on the SD card

You are now ready to eject micro SD card and place into the Pi

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