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Banana Pi Cookbook

By : RYAD E DAJANI, Ryad El-Dajani

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Banana Pi Cookbook

4.5 (2)

By: RYAD E DAJANI, Ryad El-Dajani

Overview of this book

This book is intended for anybody who wants to learn how they can utilize the capabilities of the Banana Pi to its full potential. It's full of step-by-step guides and detailed descriptions for the whole range of possibilities in a language that is appropriate for computer enthusiasts and experts alike. It would be helpful to have a basic knowledge of Unix-like operating systems or programming, but no prior experience is required as every concept is explained in the appropriate sections.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Installation and Setup

1. Installation and Setup

Introduction

Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi

Setting up the SD card on Windows

Setting up the SD card on Linux

Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi

2. Administration

2. Administration

Introduction

Determining the IP address and hostname

Connecting via SSH on Windows using PuTTY

Connecting via SSH on Unix-like systems

User maintenance

Searching, installing, and removing the software

Updating the operating system

Wireless network on the Banana Pro

3. External Disks

3. External Disks

Introduction

Mounting a USB drive

Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA

Mounting via fstab

Booting from an external disk

4. Networking

4. Networking

Introduction

Sharing files over the network via Samba

Setting up a web application

Securing the Nginx web server using SSL

Synchronizing files over the Internet

Controlling the desktop remotely using VNC

Securing SSH using SSH keys

Setting up a UPnP media server

5. Using the GPIO Pins

5. Using the GPIO Pins

Introduction

Lighting up an LED using the gpio command

Programming the LED

Using the GPIO input with a pushbutton

6. Multimedia

6. Multimedia

Introduction

Configuring the audio device

Getting accelerated video playback

Setting up Kodi

Setting up an infrared remote control using LIRC

Index

Index

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Mounting via fstab

In this recipe, we are going to automount our drives using the fstab (located at /etc/fstab) system file.

Getting ready

The following components are required to mount drives conveniently using the fstab file:

A working Linux system on the Banana Pi
A USB flash drive and/or a SATA drive
In case of a SATA drive, a working connection to your Banana Pi and a suitable power supply
Access to the Banana Pi's shell

How to do it…

Perform the following to configure a drive in your fstab:

Connect your devices accordingly.
Power your Banana Pi and initiate the boot sequence.
Open a shell.
Determine the used filesystems by blkid on attached partitions:
```
$ sudo blkid
```
You will get information about all the available partitions. In the following screenshot, you see that the drive /dev/sda has three partitions (sda1 using ext4, sda2 using FAT32, and sda3 using NTFS):

Create the necessary target directories to mount these partitions:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/ext4_partition
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/fat_partition...

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