# Getting Started with R1 - Banana Pi Wiki

## Introduction

### BPI-R1

Overview: BPI-R1 bananian linux

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  The Banana Pi R1 is a router based Banana Pi running on the same SoC as the M1 Classic Pi.
  The R1 is a open hardware router that can run on a variety of open source operating systems including OpenWrt, Android, and Bananian. The R1 has slim router form factor with a bay for 2.5" HDDs. It also has 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 1 Gigabit WAN, and 300Mbs wireless N capabilities.
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* Read more about : [Banana Pi BPI-R1](http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R1)

#### Key Features

*  Dual-core 1.0GHz CPU
*  1 GB DDR3 memory
*  Mali-400 MP2 with Open GL ES 2.0/1.1
*  4x Gigabit LAN 1x Gigabit WAN

## Development

### Basic Development

#### Prepare to develop

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 * Prepare 16G/above TF card, USB-Serial interface, Ubuntu System
 * Using your USB-Serial Connect debug console on R1
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#### Load your first image on R1

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 1.You could download latest image from our forum
 
 2.Install bpi-tools on your Ubuntu. If you can't access this URL or any other problems, please go to bpi-tools repo and install this tools manually.
 * apt-get install pv
 * curl -sL https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/bpi-tools/raw/master/bpi-tools | sudo -E bash
 
 3.After you download the image, insert your TF card into your Ubuntu
 * Execute "bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sdx" to install image on your TF card
 
 4.After step 3, then you can insert your TF card into R1, and press power button setup R1
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