Banana Pi Getting started


Several Banana Pi variants exist. The Banana Pro has built-in Wifi in addition to a SATA controller for hard disks and a Raspberry Pi compatible header





The easiest way to get started is to connect a monitor, keyboard mouse and then power up with a USB cable.

But not all monitors work with the BPi.

This one works:

Sharp Sharp LL-T1901-B

The Banana Pi does not have eMMC so you have to boot from a microSD card.

First, you have to download an image and install it on the SD card.

http://www.lemaker.org/portal.php?mod=list&catid=5

On Ubuntu, all you have to do now is extract the image, open a file browser and right click and select open with image writer.



40 Pin Header Pins:






Then, plug in the HDMI cable, a USB keyboard and mouse, and power up the Pi through the Micro USB port.

The user/password login information for Lubuntu is
SSH login : bananapi/bananapi,root/bananapi


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