If everything went well, then you should now be able to connect to your Raspberry Pi via an ssh client such as Putty, via wsl on Windows 10 or via any Unix/Linux machine. If you don't know your country code you can find it at

Set the country code to your specific country. I will be using VS Code for this however you can use any text editor.Ĭhange the SSID to your WiFi's SSID and set the password to your password. Open the wpa_nf file in your favorite text editor and enter the following information about your WiFi network. You can find additional information regarding the wpa_nf at I am using WiFi so I need to create an additional file in the root of the boot volume called wpa_nf. If you are connecting to your Pi via Ethernet, at this point you should be able to boot up the pi with our sd card and skip to the Connecting Remotely section. Placing the empty text file in the root of the boot volume tells Raspberry Pi OS to enable ssh which we can then use to connect to and configure our Raspberry Pi. Open the volume labeled 'boot' and create an empty text file named 'ssh'. You should now have a drive listed in the Windows explorer labeled 'boot'. Do not do this yet as we still have some changes to make. The imager will begin writing the new 'Raspberry Pi'Lite image to the sd card.Īt this point, it will tell us to remove the sd card from the reader. This is not an issue as the imager will completely wipe any existing data on the drive before installing our new Raspberry Pi OS Lite image. As such it already contains 3 partitions. I am reusing an sd card from an older project that has already been set up with an early version of Raspbian. I highly recommend not having any additional sd cards or USB storage media attached to the system at this time. It may take your system a few moments to scan all available drives. Select 'Choose OS'.įor this tutorial, I do not need a desktop environment so I have chosen 'Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-bit)' You can retrieve the imager from hereĪfter downloading and installing the imager you will be presented with the following options.

Our first setup will be to install the Raspberry Pi Imager.

A Raspberry Pi (anything except the Pi Zero).

Raspberry pi zero install os