Initial Raspberry Pi setup hints

A few steps for an earier Raspberry Pi setup

2020-04-30 about 86 words 1 min

Introduction

The following help setup Raspbian more efficently, e.g. headless and remote config.

Enabling Wifi and SSH on first boot

To have Raspbian started with Wifi create a file wpa_supplicant.conf in the /boot partition with the following contents:

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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=GB

network={
        ssid="your_ssid"
        psk="your_psk"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

To also enable SSH, touch a file ssh in the same /boot location

Enable x2go for remote desktop

sudo apt-get install x2goserver

Download x2go client Setup custom desktop as /usr/bin/startlxde-pi