Step by step guide from raspbian to “carbian”.

Prepare an SD card with a standard raspbian image.
Download latest raspbian image http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest from Raspberry Pi site.

Reflash a minimun 4Gb SD card with the previous downloaded image, using for example with Win32 Disk Imager tool.

Find the name of the device of the plugged in SD-card.
For instance, type before and after plugging in the sd-card:

ls -la /dev/sd*

If you see the date of /dev/sdc change, that was the one.
Find the place of the unzipped image, which was for example /home/username/Downloads/2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian.img.
Type the following command:

sudo dd if=/home/username/Downloads/2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdc 

Wait for the command to return. It may be quite a while.

Insert SD into Raspberry Pi.
Unplug Carberry from Raspberry Pi.
Power on Raspberry Pi with a standard usb power supply.
Wait for console prompt.

Following Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool (raspi-config), adjust as you prefer your new setup.
Maybe you are interested to this changes:

• Expand Filesystem
• Change User Password
• Internationalization Options
  • Change Locale
  • Change Timezone
  • Change Keyboard Layout

Select Finish, so exit and reboot.

sudo reboot

Follow this guideline to setup raspberry UART port.

Install some linux daemons

To let Carberry properly to shutdown Raspberry Pi, you need to install the shutdown daemon.
Follow this guideline to install the daemon.

To let Carberry properly to shutdown Raspberry Pi, you need to install the shutdown daemon.
Follow this guideline to install the daemon.

Backup your image, to reflash it, if necessary.