Raspberry Pi

You need an SD card and reader plus some software installed on a workstation (Win, OSx, Ubuntu).

First download abd install the Raspberry Pi imager software.

Download site

Make sure your SD card is plugged in and ready. Also make sure you are happy to format it!!!

Open the Rasperry Pi imager software and choose the OS you want to flash onto the SD card and ultimatley run on your Pi. For this example I’m choosing to run the Raspberry Pi Lite 64-bit OS.

Choose the SD flash drive from the storage options.

Before you write the OS you can click into the settings (via the gear wheel) and pre-define some options for your OS which can save you some time later. I recommend this as it means you can boot your new Pi onto the network with SSH enabled and the correct keyboard layout, saving your having to setup a monitor et al and configuring it via the console.

Select write and wait a few minutes for the process to complete.

When ready, you can eject the SD card, pop it into your Pi and boot it up and connect via SSH. Before you get into installing software I recommend doing an upgrade of the latest packages. This command will update the package library and then perform an upgrade with the -yes argument meaning it will process it automatically.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -yes