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Re:First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W by pc86 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:11PM (#29029232)
How do you edit boot.conf without a keyboard or monitor?
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Re:First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W by s800 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:14PM (#29029267)
Mount the sd card elsewhere, the boot partition is FAT formatted and can be edited on most OSes.
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Re:First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W by walrus01 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:30PM (#29030561)
you pre-configure the boot.conf and other settings on the same system you use to write the raspbian image onto the microSD card, before you put it in the pi. if you get the config right you should be able to boot a pi headless and ssh to it over your 802.11n/ac/ax network immediately after the first time it powers up.
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Re:First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W by test6554 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:58PM (#29031043)
This question is so apt that it gave me a chuckle. I've done it before, but I had to think about that one for a second. You have to edit the file while the SD card is plugged into a separate computer.
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Re:First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W by ArgyleSound on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:14PM (#29029276)
it's on a FAT partition, you can edit it by plugging the sd card into something else
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