Minibian

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Jeff Elkner edited this page Oct 27, 2016 · 8 revisions

Minibian is a minimalist (CLI only) Rasbian distribution.

Here is what I did to install it on a 16 gigabyte microsd card:

Downloaded the latest image file from the website and unzipped it.
After determining that the microsd mounted as /dev/sdi1, I ran the following command from a root prompt inside the directory with the image:
```
# dd if=2016-03-12-jessie-minibian.img of=/dev/sdi bs=4M
```
Booted my Raspberry Pi 3 with this microsd card.

Then I installed and ran raspi-config with:

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-uprade
# apt-get install raspi-config
# raspi-config

Next I followed the menus to resize the partition: