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Viktor Verebelyi edited this page Apr 16, 2019 · 6 revisions

Welcome to the headunit-desktop wiki!

Getting started

Connect to the Pi remotely

You will need to enable SSH first:

Enable SSH on a headless Raspberry Pi (add file to SD card on another machine)

For headless setup, SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh, without any extension, onto the boot partition of the SD card from another computer. When the Pi boots, it looks for the ssh file. If it is found, SSH is enabled and the file is deleted. The content of the file does not matter; it could contain text, or nothing at all.

If you have loaded Raspbian onto a blank SD card, you will have two partitions. The first one, which is the smaller one, is the boot partition. Place the file into this on

Source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/

The login use the following username/password:

Username: pi

Password: raspberry


For building your own Raspbian images see: viktorgino/pi-gen

For more details and install instructions see: headunit.viktorgino.me/

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