Building The Raspberry Pi: System Configuration Tool

This post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

The first time you start the Raspberry Pi, it will automatically load the System Configuration Tool; this is where you can change a number of settings like the password, language or network settings.

I’m going to run throuhg the settings I changed, starting with option 1; change the user password:

Hit OK on the confirmation dialog:

Enter your password and then click OK on the confirmation dialog:

Next, I’m going to change the Localisation options:

Select Change Locale:

Select your locale from the list and hit the right cursor key to move down to the OK button. I selected the following locale:

en_GB.UTF-8 UTF8

You will then be prompted to set a default locale for the system and then click OK:

Scroll down and select Network Options:

Select Hostname:

Click OK on the dialog explaining the valid characters for the hostname:

Enter your new hostname and click OK; I’m planning to use this machine as a Pi-Hole so have used an obvious name:

When prompted click Yes to reboot the Raspberry Pi:

To access the System Configuration Tool again in future, you can use the following command:

sudo raspi-config

Full details of how System Configuration Tool works is available on the official site.