


Check you PC to see what the ip of the gateway is now that it's booted.Wait 20 to 30 seconds for a full boot depending on your microsd card.To power this thing up you actually have to hold the power button for a few seconds, lights will come on, so on so forth but give it a minimum of like 5 seconds. and plug in the WAN also, we're going to need internet to do a few things. Plug in the power, Ethernet port from your pc to a lan port on the BPI-R2 (not into the WAN).You'll notice a couple of pop-ups about formatting drives and stuff, ignore it all. On windows : Using some kind of image flasher (I used balenaEtcher) write that image to your microSD card (not very big needed, I used a 4gig I had laying around).Go to and download the latest FULL build snapshot being released (file name will be bpi_bananapi-r2-squashfs-img.gz).Section A: MicroSD card prep and First Install/boot

Mods: feel free to edit as time goes on and things change.Īll this was done basing on using a MicroSD card I registered just for this, if this isn't allowed, then please delete. So after a few days of reading, struggling, failing but yet succeeding and failing again, reading through other people's threads and just a general frustration, I finally have success and figured I'd write it down to help someone else in the future.
