For example changing the default hostname, enabling SSH and configuring the WiFi network connection.

It has a hidden advanced options screen ( Ctrl+ Shift+ x) to preconfigure the Raspberry PI operating system.

With the Raspberry PI Imager you can restore the EEPROM bootloader on your Raspberry PI and configure the boot order.

Through the user interface, you can select which operating system you want to install, and the Raspberry PI Imager will download it automatically for you.

It’s an easy-to-use graphical user interface application that ships with a few extra perks: The Raspberry PI Imager was first released in early 2020.

Enough to warrant a new article to this topic in my opinion. Thanks to the relatively new Raspberry PI Imager software, setting up your Raspberry PI as a headless system becomes much quicker and easier. Afterwards, we still had to manually edit a few configuration files on the SD card to make the headless setup work. In that tutorial we used the dd command for writing the operating system to the SD card. In the past I already explained how to perform such a headless setup of your Raspberry PI. Usually, you would still need to attach at least a monitor and a keyboard to perform the initial installation, but in this article I’ll show you how you can perform such a headless setup of your Raspberry PI, without needing a monitor and keyboard. Perfect in case you want to run your Raspberry PI system as a server. BackgroundĪ headless system is one without a monitor, keyboard and mouse attached. Especially if you know how to access the hidden advanced options screen of the Raspberry PI Imager software.

Thanks to the relatively new Raspberry PI Imager software it is quick and easy to perform such a Raspberry PI headless setup. So one without a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Planning on running your Raspberry PI system as a server? In this article I’ll show you how you can setup your Raspberry PI as a headless system.

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