And now we are ready to install the card in the Raspberry Pi. In the boot drive simply create a new text file named SSH by right clicking then new then text file. This file should be saved as wpa_nf – make sure you set the “Save as type” to all files. Change WIFI_SSID with your actual WiFi SSID and do the same with your password, keep the quotation marks. For your specific country code, a list can be found here under the ISO 3166 column. We need to change 3 things, the country, WiFi SSID and password. Open a notepad editor and copy and paste the following code: country=GBĬtrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev First let’s get it set up to connect to our WiFi. We need to connect to our WiFi network and to enable SSH which is disabled by default. In this folder we need to create two configuration files which will tell the Pi what to do when it is booting up. Windows sometimes has a bit of a problem trying to load this immediately after writing the image to the SD card so I simply unplug and plug it back in and we can now access the boot drive. Once you have burned the OS image to the drive we need to open the boot drive. Select the OS image you just downloaded then select the micro SD card as the target and hit flash! balenaEtcher Post-Image Configuring Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (or other Raspberry Pi)Ĭonnect your micro SD card to your PC and open balenaEtcher.Raspberry Pi OS Lite image ( available here).

balenaEtcher or similar ( available here).We will be using a version of Raspberry Pi OS which leaves out the GUI environment meaning it performs very well on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Say you wanted to set up a remote monitoring station for weather for example, you wouldn’t want to have to use a keyboard and monitor to get things going so this setup is ideal for those sorts of applications. We can still control the Raspberry Pi over a network connection and SSH so this solution is perfect for a minimal Raspberry Pi Setup. Well the easiest way to describe it is simply by imagining using your Raspberry Pi with nothing connected, no keyboard, mouse or monitor, only power is required.

Raspberry pi zero w setup headless