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How to Set Up a New Raspberry Pi

November 21, 2023
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2 – Flash the SD card
The first thing you’ll want to do is flash your SD card with the Raspberry Pi OS image of your choice. There are a few versions available with older editions known as Raspbian. Check out our Raspberry Pi OS installation guide to get the latest edition and then return here!
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3 – Insert the Micro SD card into the Raspberry Pi

4 – Plug in the power cable

5 – SSH
Now, with your pi powered on and connected to your local network, you should be able to ssh into your pi. SSH comes installed and enabled on Rasppberry Pi OS, so you should be able to SSH in without any prior setup. First we’ll ping the Raspberry Pi to make sure we can find it. The default hostname for the Raspberry Pi is unsurprisingly: raspberrypi.ping raspberrypi
You should see output like this:
PING raspberrypi.attlocal.net (192.168.1.243): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.243: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=81.131 ms
Then press Ctrl+C to stop.
Since we can reach our pi, now we’ll SSH in. The default username and password for the Raspberry Pi is pi and raspberry.
ssh -l pi raspberrypi
The -l option specifies the username, which in our case is pi. Then we’ll type in the password: raspberry. For security reasons, you won’t see the password as you type.
Now you should be logged into your pi, and you should see a prompt like this:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $
6 – Change the password
At this point, you’ll want to change the password for the pi user on your Raspberry Pi. This can be done using the passwd command.passwd
Follow the linked guide for more details.
7 – Change your timezone
Don’t forget to set your Raspberry Pi timezone after connecting to your Pi.8 – Connect to the Internet
Check out our guide on connecting to WiFi on the Pi.
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