How to install Raspbian without an SD card reader

How to install Raspbian without an SD card reader



Writing an SD card, the first thing you need to do to set up a Raspberry Pi, typically involves a computer, card reader and software such Raspberry Pi Imager


What You Need
Android device
Adapters to connect a micro SD card reader
Micro SD card
Raspberry Pi and accessories

https://blog.matterxiaomi.com/blog/Raspberry-Pi-part3/

1headless install


you need a PC with micro-SD card slot or SD card reader and Internet connection.
You need the PC for downloading the Raspberry PI Lite operating system and writing it to the micro-SD card.

Take your SD card and insert it into your PCs SD card slot or external SD card reader

Perform a minimal install on your Raspberry PI
putting the file ssh.txt in the folder - make sure it’s all lowercase.

Etcher
EtchDroid


Etcher
https://etcher.balena.io/



EtchDroid
EtchDroid is an open-source application that helps you write images to USB drives.
Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.

Supported devices

✅ USB flash drives
✅ USB SD card adapters

Raspberry PI SD card images (but you must unzip them first!)

https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid

Raspberry Pi OS Lite

Release date: December 11th 2023
System: 64-bit
Kernel version: 6.1
Debian version: 12 (bookworm)
Size: 433MB

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_arm64/images/

https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2023-12-11/2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz

win32diskimager

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

https://zenlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/project/win32diskimager/Archive/Win32DiskImager-1.0.0-binary.zip

unzip F:\googleDownload\2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz

2022年4月7日，树莓派官方发布新闻称，出于系统安全考虑，目前最新的树莓派系统「Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye」已经移除了默认账户「Pi」，用户需要在首次启动树莓派系统时设置账号和密码，才能进入树莓派系统。这意味着，我们在设置账号密码前无法远程进入树莓派系统了。