Add Content to Wiki "CentOS 7.2.1511 Minimal on the Raspberry PI 3"

[seans11]

I would like to suggest adding the following content to your Wiki on Minimal Centos 7x on RPi 3x. Your guide would be a great place to host this information. There is a lot of conflicting information about this procedure out there so I would like to add some clarity. Thanks.

Using a serial console cable on Raspberry Pi 3 B for initial setup/configuration:

1. After loading the Centos image to the SDXC card, edit "config.txt". You may need to create this file if it does not exit. (/boot/config.txt) or Mount FAT32 partition to drive letter for access to config.txt
2. Add or edit the following entry to enable UART/serial functionality:
   enable_uart=1
3. Connect Ground, TX, RX (typically black, white, green)
   https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-5-using-a-console-cable/connect-the-lead
4. Connect USB to PC and ensure your Prolific USB-to-Serial driver is installed. Reboot may be necessary if installing for the first time.
5. Locate the active COM port with Device manager -> Ports (COM & LPT)
6. Use PuTTy on Serial setting and set your COM port and rate to 115200.
7. Boot your Pi and you should receive console output

[rharmonson]

Sean, Done! Very nice and thank you! https://github.com/rharmonson/richtech/wiki/Using-CentOS-7.2.1511-Minimal-on-the-Raspberry-PI-3#serial-console I have not added it to rharmonson.github.io but debating if I will be continuing that site. It's pretty, very pretty, but its more work to publish and most of the traffic seems to be at github.com/rharmonson. If you would like to contribute to existing or new content, let me know. Richard

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 6:35 AM seans11 ***@***.***> wrote: I would like to suggest adding the following content to your Wiki on Minimal Centos 7x on RPi 3x. Your guide would be a great place to host this information. There is a lot of conflicting information about this procedure out there so I would like to add some clarity. Thanks. Using a serial console cable on Raspberry Pi 3 B for initial setup/configuration: 1. After loading the Centos image to the SDXC card, edit "config.txt". You may need to create this file if it does not exit. (/boot/config.txt) or Mount FAT32 partition to drive letter for access to config.txt 2. Add or edit the following entry to enable UART/serial functionality: enable_uart=1 3. Connect Ground, TX, RX (typically black, white, green) https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-5-using-a-console-cable/connect-the-lead 4. Connect USB to PC and ensure your Prolific USB-to-Serial driver is installed. Reboot may be necessary if installing for the first time. 5. Locate the active COM port with Device manager -> Ports (COM & LPT) 6. Use PuTTy on Serial setting and set your COM port and rate to 115200. 7. Boot your Pi and you should receive console output — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHmNrmN74ggzQHgqRmLcGS2Ocj9hBvhvks5utuQYgaJpZM4YYAoJ> .