Run a Raspberry Pi headless from initial boot-up

David Maitland has worked out the series of commands and edits that you need to carry out in order to automatically make your Raspberry Pi headless and available on your network from first boot-up. It involves using a Linux computer to edit files on the SD card before you put it in your Zero. There is still no way of doing this from Windows, however, so your actual ability to use this still relies on having a Linux computer at your disposal. Read more here.

1 comment for “Run a Raspberry Pi headless from initial boot-up

  1. You can do this from Windows by running a Linux Virtual machine using e.g. VirtualBox.
    I have done similar things (editing files on the ext4 partition of a Pi sd-card) on my Mac using a Linux virtual machine.

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