Set up a Rasperry Pi from scratch without a monitor and keyboard

Note

Setting up the Raspberry Pi without a monitor and without keyboard is called a ‘headless’ setup.
Using the NOOBS installer seems not to work. Instead flash the card directly with an image.
Activate the SSH service by placing a file called ‘ssh’ into the boot partition.
The initial start up of the Raspberry Pi may take 20 min.

Procedure

Dowload Raspian Image

The lite version is sufficient
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Flash the image to the microSDHC card

Use the balenaEtcher
https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Activate the SSH service

Mount the microSDHC card on the computer used to flash the image to the card
Add an additional, empty file called ‘SSH‘ to the boot partition
- ‘cd’ into the boot partition
```
cd /Volumes/boot/
```
- Create an empty file named ‘ssh’:
```
touch ssh
```

Set up the Raspberry Pi

Insert the microSDHC card into the Raspberry Pi
Connect the Rasperry Pi to the network
Boot up the Raspberry Pi by connecting it to the power supply
Be patient – it may take 20 min for the Raspberry Pi for the initial start up. Wait until the red power led glows steadily and the green activity led stopped flashing.

Find out the IP address of the Raspberry Pi

Login to the router. Check the assigned IPs.
Scan the IP range
- On Mac in the Terminal (The && in the code below are not rendered correctly)

for ip in $(seq 1 254);
do ping -c 1 -t2 192.168.10.$ip;
[ $? -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; echo "192.168.10.$ip UP" || : ; done

Connect with SSH to the Raspberry Pi

Find out the IP address of the Raspberry Pi
In the Terminal enter
```
ssh pi@[IP address]
```
Confirm the message by typing ‘yes’
Enter the password ‘raspberry’

Configure with raspi-config

After connecting with SSH to the Raspberry Pi, enter:
```
sudo raspi-config
```
Advanced Options → Expand Filesystem
- Check the file system with
```
df -h
```
Change User Password

References

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