headless.md

Headless setup is a often used configuration as you don't need any extra pair of keyboard and mouse.

Setting up your Computer and SD Card

We will start at your Computer. Insert the SD card into your computer.

Writing the Image to SD card

Update your Distribution and install the RPi imager.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install rpi-imager #tool to download and install images onto SD card
rpi-imager 

In this Series we use the RaspberryPi OS (legacy) without desktop environment. Now we can configure the Image to start at best conditions.

Enable SSH

To enable SSH directly on the SD card add a new file named ssh, with no extension, to the If you have added an empty file ssh to the boot sector of your SD card (touch /boot/ssh), the Pi will start with SSH enabled. After that we can connect from your laptop with: ssh pi@raspberrypi.local (or ssh pi@<IPADRESS> when the ip adress in known).

Booting up your Pi

Insert the SD card into your RapsberryPi, connect it to your router and power it on. After the startup we can connect via SSH ssh pi@raspberrypi.local and log in (default pw is "raspberry").

Normally your raspberry can be found in the same network with raspberrypi.local. If not check your routers ip table to find your RPis IP and connect @<localip>

If you don't have a wire-connection you can use your Wifi, read the how to

Start using the RPi with raspi-config to configure all settings.

Sources and more

RaspbberryPi.com