Raspberry Pi OS quickstart

Raspberry Pi OS

Raspberry Pi OS is a debian distro that now supports my 4k Sony "monitor" out of the box, nice. I re-installed to carambola in 2022/06.

Built-in installation

• Use the Imager to grab an image and burn to an SD card

sudo dpkg -i imager_1.7.2_amd64.deb
sudo rpi-imager&
# pick Raspberry Pi OS LITE (32-bit or 64-bit?  I am trying both...)

• Plug power, keyboard and HDMI cable into pi and boot it up
• Go through setup wizard: US, username m, etc.
• Run config to turn on ssh and wifi:

sudo raspi-config
# 1 System Options > S1 Wireless LAN > Enter 2.4 SSID + pw
# 3 Interface Options > I2 SSH > Enable
ip a # remember the IP address

You can now ssh from a more comfortable location to set things up.

Setup over ssh

• Run config tool to set up the basics:

ssh m@192.168.....
sudo raspi-config
# 2 System Options > S4 Hostname > (eg: carambola)
# 3 Interface Options > I2 SSH > Enable
# 6 Advanced Options > A1 Expand Filesystem
ip a # capture the MAC address, add (MAC,hostname,IP) entry to bitpost dnsmasq

That's basically it. You now have a barebones Pi to grow into whatever you need.