# Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 2. First Time Configuration

## Overview

In the first lesson of this series, we showed you how to prepare an SD card containing an operating system for your Raspberry Pi. In this lesson, we will show you how to setup your Raspberry Pi the first time you boot it up.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/002/858/medium800/learn_raspberry_pi_raspi-config_main.png?1396787925)

We do this using a tool called Raspi-Config that runs automatically the first time you boot your Raspberry Pi. This starts before the windowing system and so you have to use the cursor keys and Return key to navigate the menu system.  
  
It is a bit like adjusting the BIOS settings on a PC, once you have things right, you probably won't need it again. We will start with the options that are most important and then look at some of the other options that you may wish to configure.

- [Next Page](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-2-first-time-configuration/using-the-whole-sd-card.md)

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