Installation Guide

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1. Open the Raspberry Pi Imager -- (Get it for your OS here)
   

2. Scoll to the bottom of "Choose OS" to "Use custom"
   

3. Select your RaspiOS-ARM64 image
   

4. Choose the appropriate storage device to flash the image (your SD card)
   

5. Press Ctrl+Shift+X to open the Advanced Configuration menu
   Check the "Enable SSH" and "Use password authentication" options and fill in a password to use to protect the installation
   

6. Scroll down a bit an check the box to "Configure wifi"
   Put the name of your WiFi network as "SSID" with its password below.
   BE SURE TO SET YOUR WIFI COUNTRY!!
   You can also try setting the locale here, but it seems to not stick, so to speak.
   Be sure to "Save"
   

7. Finally, select "WRITE" and ensure the system you mean to perform this operation.
   Enter your administrative password when prompted.
   

8. Continue
   

9. Next, you will need a terminal emulator with SSH support to connect to the Raspberry Pi via SSH using the password set in step #5.
   MacOS and Linux users already have built-in terminals, but Windows users will need to install a terminal emulator.
   PuTTY is the most highly recommended and well documented for Windows.
   (Download here)
   

10. Using the terminal emulator, first try to connect to the Raspberry Pi using its self-assigned hostname, 'raspberrypi.local'.
    PuTTY users will need to be sure they are connecting to port 22 and using the 'pi' user to connect.
    The first time you connect, you need to exchange public keys with the Pi. Just type 'yes' to do so.
    Then enter the SSH password to log in.
    If you have trouble connecting to the Pi through its hostname, find out what IP address it was
    issued from the router and use that IP address as the "host" for the SSH connection.