

When your Pi has booted to the desktop, click on the menu to the top left of the screen and go to the Preferences menu. Lastly attach the power cable to boot the Pi. Insert the microSD into the Raspberry Pi, then attach any peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, HDMI, Ethernet to the Pi.

With Raspbian installed we now need to boot our Raspberry Pi. The best tutorial on how to do this is provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and can be found on their blog We start the project by installing the latest version of Raspbian on to an 8GB or greater SD card. An Ethernet cable connected to a router.

If you fancy opera in the kitchen, jazz in the bathroom and the latest Hollywood blockbuster in your pocket, then you need a media server and the Raspberry Pi 2 is the ideal low cost candidate. With our ever increasing media libraries containing movies, TV shows, music and pictures we need something that can serve this content to any of our devices.
