If you want to install the distributions to an attached flash or USB HDD, now is the time to attach it. Note: This Wi-Fi setup only applies to the BerryBoot installer once you install the distributions-like Rasbian-you’ll need to configure the Wi-Fi again within that distribution.Īfter you have configured the Wi-Fi or if you’re using a wired connection, you will be prompted to select a disk: If you selected Wi-Fi for your network connection, you’ll be prompted to select a Wi-Fi network and enter that network’s passcode. Finally, set your locale and keyboard preferences. Set your network connection to wired or Wi-Fi. Take a moment to adjust the video output (select or deselect overscan based on whether or not you see the green calibration bars at the top and bottom of the screen). You will see a brief boot process and then you’ll arrive at the GUI of the configuration wizard as seen below:
Pop the SD card in your Raspberry Pi unit and plug in the power cable to boot it up. Once you have downloaded the installer and extracted the contents of it to your SD card, it’s time to get started.
ZIP file to a FAT-formatted SD card you want to use as your multi-boot platform. To get started extract the contents of the BerryBoot Installer.
In addition to the hardware requirements outlined in the tutorial, you’ll need to download the following file from the BerryBoot repository: We would suggest reading over our tutorial The HTG Guide to Getting Started with Raspberry Pi to make sure you have the basics covered (like making sure you have an adequate power source and the basics of configuring Raspbian). You’ll need a Raspberry Pi, appropriate peripherals, and internet access. In short, if you want to play with different tools and operating systems on your Pi without buying a bunch of SD cards, labeling them, keeping track of them, and swapping them out all the time, BerryBoot is an excellent way to get even more from your Pi with very little extra effort. In addition to the included distributions, you can also add your own Linux distributions either by downloading optimized images or by converting them to the SquashFS format and importing them to BerryBoot-more on this later. RaspRazor (Unofficial Rasbian branch, lots of programming tools).Berry Terminal (LTSP/Edubuntu Thinclient).BerryWebserver (Webserver Bundle: Lighttpd + PHP + SQLITE).The current Pi-optimized distributions included with BerryBoot are: In addition, the BerryBoot configuration tool makes it dead simple to download additional Raspberry Pi optimized distributions. You can store the operating systems either on the card itself or, if you want more room, you can configure BerryBoot to use the SD card only as a launcher and to run the operating systems off an attached hard drive. The biggest benefit is that it allows you to boot more than one operating system off the SD card. BerryBoot is a boot management tool for the Raspberry Pi that adds quite a bit of functionality to the Raspberry Pi experience.