Startup Notes for Type B Raspberry Pi with a Windows download of Raspbian
J. DeAngelo - AG6QO
June 15, 2013

- Use SDformatter to format a 16Gb or larger SD drive - do NOT name the volume
- download Debian from the Raspberry Pi website and unpack.
- use Win32DiskImager to move the distribution image onto the SD drive - do NOT name the volume
- eject the SD drive by left clicking on its icon on your My Computer screen
- place the SD drive in the Pi and boot.

- Note that with the currently distributed Raspbian, the /boot/config.txt file will allow the Pi to
decide whether you are using an HDMI video device or not. In my experience, it doesn't often get it
right. Especially if you are using a HD computer monitor (which quickly goes into power-save mode, 
and doesn't allow dis-abling power-save). This is additionally confounded with a DVI adapter! 
Even with an HD tv in raw HDMI, it sometimes guesses HD and sometimes "defaults" to Composite Video. 
This can be very annoying.

- I recommend editing the /boot/config.txt distribution file to uncomment the line which has:
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1
it should now look like this:
hdmi_force_hotplug=1

	They say you can do this in windows via Notepad, but if you have a composite monitor, you 
	can use it to set superuser and use vi to edit the file. If you don't know how to do this, 
	to here and try : http://elinux.org/R-Pi_ConfigurationFile

Anyway, now you can reboot and ALWAYS expect your HDMI video to work.