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Headless Raspberry Pi Setup
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Prerequisites

  1. Raspberry Pi
  2. SD card
  3. Electric and network cable to RPi

Setup

  1. Download a distro image

  2. Connect SD card to computer

  3. List all available disks

     diskutil list

  4. Unmount the SD card, but do not eject it

     diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk[disk-number]

  5. Write image to SD card

     dd if=/path/to/image.img of=/dev/rdisk[disk-number] bs=1m

(Might have to use bs=1M instead)

  1. Wait for operation to finish, takes a few minutes
  2. Connect SD card to computer again
  3. Create a file called ssh in root folder of SD card (touch ssh)
  4. Done! Unless you want to configure your wireless network too, then begin by looking at this forum post
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