A semi-regular event: setting up a RPi from scratch.
This is a super short setup guide.
Flashing
Download an image as a zip and extract, and do a checksum to ensure download correct.
Burn image to sd card. For example, if:
- the image file is
2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-lite.img - the location of sd card is
/dev/mmcblk0(use, for example,lsblk)
sudo dd bs=1M if=2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-lite.img of=/dev/mmcblk0Configuring
I think I’ve successfully configured a new flash to run a headless RPi with a single attempt once. Every other time it’s a lot of staring at blinking lights and blank terminals. Rightly or wrongly, I often blame exotic wifi configurations (or secret trailing whitespace in their SSID …)
There are various ways to do this: wifi, ethernet direct to laptop, or with the zero over USB. This time I tried, failed, and went to dig out a monitor and keyboard. Far easier setting up and confirming wifi and ssh setting via raspi-config.
Since I failed to do this, I’ll just point at the instructions.
Add a public ssh key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
and add the RPis details into the local machine’s ssh ~/.ssh/config.
Updating
On the RPi, update and upgrade
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgradeInstall all the favs you definitely will use
sudo apt install git vim python3-dev python3-pip