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Chapter 2 Getting started with your Raspberry Pi^31

THE OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI BEGINNER’S GUIDE

Setting up the software
Before you can begin using the Raspberry Pi in earnest, you’ll need to set up its software –
in particular its operating system, the software which controls what the Pi can do. NOOBS,
the New Out-Of-Box Software, is designed to make this as easy as possible, allowing you to
choose from several different operating systems and install them automatically. Better still,
you can do all this in little more than a few clicks of the mouse.
When the Pi is first switched on, or booted, with a fresh installation of NOOBS on its microSD
card, you’ll see a screen with the Raspberry Pi logo on it and a small progress window at the
upper-left. After a short pause, which can take up to a minute the first time you use the NOOBS
microSD card, you’ll see the screen shown in Figure 2-1.

3 Figure 2-1:

The NOOBS menu

without any operating

systems installed