Hey guys, I would like to install Debian on my raspberry pi 4 model B 2gb, but I dont have a micro HDMI. I would like to install it headless. I watched a video where the guy created some files in the boot partition on the SD card to enable SSH, and I was wondering if I can do something similar with a Debian SD so I dont need to go out and buy a cable.

I couldn’t find too many tutorials for Debian on the pi, and none to install it headless.

Thanks in advance!

Edit 1: I ended up going with raspbian lite because of some other issues that came up.

    • promitheasOP
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      11 year ago

      Ill probably boot into the SD card from my laptop and set everything up like that before even putting it on the RPi

      • asjmcguire
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        11 year ago

        Yeah. I think the empty ssh file and wpa_supplicant stuff that Raspbian accepts in the root of the disk, is down to the nature of people setting up headless Raspberry Pi’s frequently. Setting it up properly on a PC and then booting the Pi from it - is definitely the way to go.