- Download the latest image from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
$ wget --trust-server-names https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest - Ensure checksum is correct
$ sha256sum 2020-02-05-raspbian-buster-lite.zip 7ed5a6c1b00a2a2ab5716ffa51354547bb1b5a6d5bcb8c996b239f9ecd25292b 2020-02-05-raspbian-buster-lite.zip - Unzip image
$ unzip 2020-02-05-raspbian-buster-lite.zip -
Insert SD card into card reader
- Determine SD card device name
$ sudo fdisk -l ... Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 31.3 GB ... - Un-mount SD card (if gets mounted automatically)
$ sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0p* - Copy image to SD card
$ sudo dd if=2020-02-05-raspbian-buster-lite.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync - Determine SD card partition names
$ sudo fdisk -l ... Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 31.3 GB ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 532479 524288 256M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/mmcblk0p2 532480 4390911 3858432 1.9G 83 Linux ... - Un-mount SD card (if gets mounted automatically)
$ sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0p* - Mount SD card boot partition
$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/boot $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot - Enable SSH
$ sudo touch /mnt/boot/ssh - Enable Wi-Fi (optional). Replace <SSID> and <SECRET> with correct values
$ sudo tee /mnt/boot/wpa_supplicant.conf << EOF country=US ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ ssid="<SSID>" psk="<SECRET>" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK } EOF - Un-mount SD card boot partition
$ sudo umount /mnt/boot - Remove SD card from card reader
- Insert SD card into Raspberry Pi
- Plug-in LAN cable (or use Wi-Fi) and power supply.
- After a couple of minutes you should be able to ping
$ ping -c 1 raspberrypi PING raspberrypi (192.168.100.33) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from raspberrypi (192.168.100.33): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.69 ms ... - Generate your SSH key pair (if you don’t have one)
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa - Copy your SSH public key. Default password for the pi user is raspberry
$ ssh -F /dev/null pi@raspberrypi -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null 'mkdir -p ~/.ssh/; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub - Now you should be able to SSH without password
$ ssh pi@raspberrypi - Configure
$ sudo raspi-config- 1 System Options
- S3 Password (passwd)
- 1 System Options
- S4 Hostname (/etc/hostname, /etc/hosts)
- 5 Localization Options
- I1 Locale (en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8)
- I2 Timezone (/etc/localtime)
- 6 Advanced Options
- A4 Network Interface Names
- 1 System Options
- Reboot
$ sudo reboot