Enable SSH on a headless Raspberry Pi (add file to SD card on another machine) For headless setup, SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh, without any extension, onto the boot partition of the SD card from another computer. When the Pi boots, it looks for the ssh file. If it is found, SSH is enabled and the file is deleted. The content of the file does not matter; it could contain text, or nothing at all. It is not worth waiting until someone else makes you a button for this purpose.
@@_den_ that's the point, instead of creating a empty ssh file every time I install the os. A simple button that will do the same and take less than a fraction of a second would be so much easier and better
@@k_8609 Yes, pressing a button is certainly easier, but it’s much more interesting to write the installer yourself, which will use the DD and add the options you need, it’s quite easy and useful to train your skills. As a result, it will be even easier to perform this procedure multiple times.
Cool. I also noticed that the Raspberry Pi 4, 2 GB model has now been permanently reduced in price from $45 to $35. Maybe they are trying to prime us for an announcement on 3/14.
For a moment i thought it was 10 pm and i said:"wtf?? it was 8 pm just now" then i noticed it was not my desktop and it was full screen....you have almost the same icons than on my taskbar 😅🤣
I was trying to format my sd card because I want to get Kali Linux on it rather than raspian OS, I kept getting errors and this software completely bypassed all the error. Thanks
Great video. I just downloaded it to Windows and copied the whole folder "Raspberry Pi Imager" to a USB thumb drive running PortableApps. It works as a portable app! Very convenient. Well done RPi!
I used the official Raspberry Pi imager to flash Raspbian to an SD last night. I will have to rewatch your how to video on how to setup Retropie through Raspbian video for my Raspberry Pi 4
As always thank you for the video. You didnt mention this but I assume you can't back up an image with this correct. If not I guess it's back to win32disk imager lol
Building my third bartop pi, Twin Sticks only. So this is great cuz I am currently watching and installing a fresh retropie image so I don't have to remove a bunch of games off an image. Thanks so much.
Would be cool if it would also expand the partition, etc like a pi does on initial boot. Since I don't daily drive win/mac or Ubuntu, I'll stick with Etcher for now, but this is cool thing for the people who have had problems running Etcher etc in the past. Seems there is a flood of less technical people getting into emulation etc lately, all looking for "plug and play" solutions, so this will be good for them.
Another great video. Which model of Lepow monitor are you using in the video? Are you pretty happy with it's performance? Thanks again for your work in bringing us these videos!
Greetings. How always thanks for your contributions and tutorials. Good for raspberry pi. Always improving and making our lives easier. .. the truth is that there is no community like raspberry pi.
The way you can choose your OS in this program reminds me of berryboot , they should build a cross platform tool to manage berryboot and install OS'es in this way. Another example to explain what i mean, the way that you control your XCP-ng server on your LAN from a Windows XCP-ng Client. Off topic just a thought , I started thinking of it when you said it was also doing a netinstall on top of flashing the image, like Rufus but different. So I guess thats the biggest benefit of having this app is a repo of netinstall images you can't get anywhere else unless your using something like berryboot.
@@sideswipe1261 After a year later I've converted many of my older computers to emulation machines, just for their unique quirks when it comes to performance. I also used the SD flasher on I believe another microcomputer. Happy you learned a lot. 👍
So....I need a pc to download a new operating system to my pi? I cant download directly to the pi's sd? Obviously, that is the case. Will a chrombook, or even a android phone work to download to the sd card?
@@brostenen : Because if it says you can remove the SD Card, but its not actually been ejected in Windows, then you risk corrupting it. Or does it prompt you to eject it via the OS before removing? Thought someone had a quick Answer instead of a lazy response - so I'll go test it myself.
@@DaHaiZhu Duh.... Tell me something I dont know instead. What I said can be told in a different way..... If you are too lazy to check that, then you should not be using a computer anyway. Like of course you check if it has been ejected from the OS.
How bout a vid on a 4 player extension control panel with track ball to map I wanna do it using a odroid xu4 retro arch retro pie and hopefully light guns come back this year
All fine and dandy, but I hate software that just installs with no choice of where to put it. Grr! So I just copied files after install and pasted to where I wanted them, then uninstalled original. Still works fine.
Thank you for your videos,ive been like a kid in a candy store playing my old favorites and some I always meant to get around to. So a question, may be I just haven't watched the right video or searched the right term. But about game saves. I know RetroPie creates a save file if I back that up and re-image my pie (pi4 on your tutorial) can I just drop my games back on from my backup and continue from my saves? (think legend of zelda). Or are there other files I need to backup. Thanks. And thanks for all your work with these videos.
Im super new to this and just got my first Pi. I have the card with noobs on it and have the pi set up. Could I do this with the sd card to add retropie to my boot up screen?
Bonjour from paris france, QUESTION ??? I tried doing this on a usb 4g stick so i can use it on an old laptop to run as an emuklator, but when it boots the screens stays all black lit. how can i fix that
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to re-image a card. I’m not sure what’s happening but I’m pretty sure it has to do with the way the imager handles user password, first off only typing it ONCE is a major mistake as there’s a reason everyone wants you to type it twice. I’m sure I’ve made typos and with secure passwords it’s impossible to play with combinations until you guess it, so I tried to copy/paste the password to ensure it was right but there’s no option to show password like there is for the wlan pass... I think the imager does something to the pasted password because I simply cannot log in via SSH when I do that, it’s incredibly frustrating imaging a card multiple times over something so absurd. It could all be fixed by allowing the user to reveal the password and/or making you type it twice. Without the default user doing it wrong can only be fixed with a fresh OS install.
hey man, any chance you could do a comparison of the 3 different images for the odroid go advance, I'm running retro arena now but batocera and emuelec are looking really cool too??
Hi could you make a video or direct me on how to turn a surface RT into an emulation station? I've been wondering if it could have some use or is it just frankly speaking going to garbage?
It's a shame it's Ubuntu in the Linux verse, and I reckon Debian or Debian based distros could be coaxed. Gentoo, Redhat and Arch or derivatives are likely to be a struggle.
I do this with the help of dd, even immediately from the archive with the image you can write www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.md
Anything is better than etcher. Not sure why it's grown to 130MB and caonnects to the internet for a simple disk imager. I wish win32diskimager would work on my win10n machine that was just perfect.
At this point I'm curious if you have to travel more than two feet in any direction in your house to play marvel vs. Capcom 2
Cody Every Day that is the dream
Or Gunstar Heroes...
If they would have added a check box for enabling ssh, that would have been great.
Enable SSH on a headless Raspberry Pi (add file to SD card on another machine)
For headless setup, SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh, without any extension, onto the boot partition of the SD card from another computer. When the Pi boots, it looks for the ssh file. If it is found, SSH is enabled and the file is deleted. The content of the file does not matter; it could contain text, or nothing at all.
It is not worth waiting until someone else makes you a button for this purpose.
@Svein Are Karlsen i know how to do that, if they are making their own program to flash iso, they should add some extra features to it.
@@_den_ that's the point, instead of creating a empty ssh file every time I install the os. A simple button that will do the same and take less than a fraction of a second would be so much easier and better
@@_den_ I know how to, I just do a lot of testing, i always open power shell and type "New-Item ssh". I would be good if they just added a check box.
@@k_8609 Yes, pressing a button is certainly easier, but it’s much more interesting to write the installer yourself, which will use the DD and add the options you need, it’s quite easy and useful to train your skills. As a result, it will be even easier to perform this procedure multiple times.
I just ordered my first raspberry pi yesterday.
What fortuitous timing.
ordered mine last Thursday (pi zero w), arrived today and ngl, didn't know it was new just thought it was another option to prepare an sd heh
Cool. I also noticed that the Raspberry Pi 4, 2 GB model has now been permanently reduced in price from $45 to $35. Maybe they are trying to prime us for an announcement on 3/14.
@Shadan Rikan Anniversary on 3/14?
Heh.... 3/14. Looks like PI.
@@bgates275 Our anniversary was Feb 29 :)
I don't know why man, but I absolutely love your videos.. I think it is the way you explain things. Keep them coming mate!
you say "thanks for watchin" i say "thanks for bringing it to our attention" :)
Ditto!
Thank you so much!!!! I’ve been trying to do this for like 100 years, and now you just showed me the easiest way! I appreciate your video.
And thanks for the imager update, I always come to you for vids for the latest on raspberry!
Thanks ETA. You make the whole retro thing so much easier. You're a star.
For a moment i thought it was 10 pm and i said:"wtf?? it was 8 pm just now" then i noticed it was not my desktop and it was full screen....you have almost the same icons than on my taskbar 😅🤣
I was trying to format my sd card because I want to get Kali Linux on it rather than raspian OS, I kept getting errors and this software completely bypassed all the error. Thanks
excellent, I now feel confident enough to purchase my first raspberry pi and flash it.
Great video. I just downloaded it to Windows and copied the whole folder "Raspberry Pi Imager" to a USB thumb drive running PortableApps. It works as a portable app! Very convenient. Well done RPi!
You can do this through Raspbian as well.
"sudo apt update && sudo apt install rpi-imager"
Thanks this worked perfectly for me 💯 on my raspberry pi 4
ETA... Any update on RetroPie for Raspberry PI 4?
@@InfectedChris I wonder why it's taking so long?
@@GODCONVOYPRIME I wonder the same thing
i am currently using official dev builds from the r/retropie subreddit, and it works perfectly! everything runs great and you should give it a try!
I'm using the unofficial version of RetroPie on RPi4 and have not noticed any problems so far
@@hubertdymnicki2867 How good is DREAMCAST running? I want to use my RPi 4 for DREAMCAST Emulation but though RETROPIE
I used the official Raspberry Pi imager to flash Raspbian to an SD last night. I will have to rewatch your how to video on how to setup Retropie through Raspbian video for my Raspberry Pi 4
Pole position
PS: Thanks for all your videos, your explanations are great . Now I'm in love with emulators and retro games.
See, I'm glad that they created this to make it easier us users.
As always thank you for the video. You didnt mention this but I assume you can't back up an image with this correct. If not I guess it's back to win32disk imager lol
Building my third bartop pi, Twin Sticks only. So this is great cuz I am currently watching and installing a fresh retropie image so I don't have to remove a bunch of games off an image. Thanks so much.
Would be cool if it would also expand the partition, etc like a pi does on initial boot. Since I don't daily drive win/mac or Ubuntu, I'll stick with Etcher for now, but this is cool thing for the people who have had problems running Etcher etc in the past. Seems there is a flood of less technical people getting into emulation etc lately, all looking for "plug and play" solutions, so this will be good for them.
Glad I went to your channel I almost missed this video somehow
Now i need portable wireless touchsreen monitor. Plug rasberry to a power bank and put together in my bag that will so gergous 😂
I have been thinking about using retropie like this... A tablet or monitor with a joystick but i have no idea where to start.
Thanks for the video sensei!
Did this also save the raspbian image to your computer? If not, I'll have to re-download it each time I want to flash an SD card???
Good question I wonder this too
Thanks again for all your awesome video I have learned a lot of stuff with your video and still learning.thanks you and God bless you and your family
Used this last night, before I even saw this video. Worked great, although it took a little longer than I thought it would...
Bout Goddamn time Pi Foundation!
So the programm just says that : download corrupt Hash does not match. So what should I do?
is Retropie usable on the Pi 4 yet? I think i read somewhere that is isn't
I'm so glad they did this. I had been having lots of trouble using Ether and Win32 for Pi related stuff. This should be better.
I will say, let time tell if there are any bugs at all.
Another great video. Which model of Lepow monitor are you using in the video? Are you pretty happy with it's performance? Thanks again for your work in bringing us these videos!
From the installer I see, they used Qt5 as the GUI framework. Nice to see, so it should integrate into KDE nicely.
Greetings. How always thanks for your contributions and tutorials. Good for raspberry pi. Always improving and making our lives easier. .. the truth is that there is no community like raspberry pi.
I used it a few days ago. Worked like a charm 👍
I don’t know what’s going on but that’s so dope
Thanks to let us know !! 😉
You have a new subscriber !! 👍
I am still using win32diskimager
Nice, Thank you for sharing and your hard work :). Keep safe and well.
The way you can choose your OS in this program reminds me of berryboot , they should build a cross platform tool to manage berryboot and install OS'es in this way. Another example to explain what i mean, the way that you control your XCP-ng server on your LAN from a Windows XCP-ng Client. Off topic just a thought , I started thinking of it when you said it was also doing a netinstall on top of flashing the image, like Rufus but different. So I guess thats the biggest benefit of having this app is a repo of netinstall images you can't get anywhere else unless your using something like berryboot.
Thanks. Saved me some time
I always wanted to make a emulation machine, this might be useful =)
A year after, has it proven useful? I hope so! Have you finished a build? I’m a geek for stories I like to hear! Go figure! I’ve learned a lot here!
@@sideswipe1261 After a year later I've converted many of my older computers to emulation machines, just for their unique quirks when it comes to performance. I also used the SD flasher on I believe another microcomputer. Happy you learned a lot. 👍
So....I need a pc to download a new operating system to my pi? I cant download directly to the pi's sd?
Obviously, that is the case. Will a chrombook, or even a android phone work to download to the sd card?
Thank you
Saw this came out in my news feed.
danke fürs zeigen! 😉🖖🏻
What is the max memory limit on a SD Card can hold each version of RPi? Thank You! ETA Prime for your good video contents always help me a ton.
Is It possible to make a multiboot card with the imager? Awesome video!
doesnt work it says my OS is too old or smth
I'm on mac btw
It's about time, etcher never worked for me on the Mac, always had problems and resorted using a friends PC.
Now they need to come up with a way for Chromebook users to download and flash SD cards
Thanks for this info, I tried this linux mint and it works. Earlier than this, it would be easier to implement Raspia than Noobs.
Of course it is just as fast as etcher and winimage. Flashing is basically just a data copying process. 😁
Rasberry PI boards be Great to use for retro Gaming & Cloud Gaming....
Awesome! I hate etcher. It's ruined more sd and micro sd cards than I care to think about. For the record it's "Fell swoop" not fail swoop. :)
@@misterhat5823 true enough, but it didn't sound like an accent.
so.. there is no option to backup your sd card to an image for backup. guess i'll keep using w32diskimager then..
Does it actualy do an 'Eject' within Windows so you can safely remove the SD Card, or do you still need to do that from the System Tray?
Who cares... It cant be that hard to do. Unless someone is uber lazy.
@@brostenen : Because if it says you can remove the SD Card, but its not actually been ejected in Windows, then you risk corrupting it. Or does it prompt you to eject it via the OS before removing?
Thought someone had a quick Answer instead of a lazy response - so I'll go test it myself.
@@DaHaiZhu Duh.... Tell me something I dont know instead. What I said can be told in a different way..... If you are too lazy to check that, then you should not be using a computer anyway. Like of course you check if it has been ejected from the OS.
Awesome! Will this work with any image file even if it is unrelated to the pi? Wouldn't make sense to use this if it can't do that.
How bout a vid on a 4 player extension control panel with track ball to map I wanna do it using a odroid xu4 retro arch retro pie and hopefully light guns come back this year
Do you have to format a new card first? Or you just go directly to this process after buying an sd card.
All fine and dandy, but I hate software that just installs with no choice of where to put it. Grr!
So I just copied files after install and pasted to where I wanted them, then uninstalled original. Still works fine.
Thank you!
Thank you for your videos,ive been like a kid in a candy store playing my old favorites and some I always meant to get around to. So a question, may be I just haven't watched the right video or searched the right term. But about game saves. I know RetroPie creates a save file if I back that up and re-image my pie (pi4 on your tutorial) can I just drop my games back on from my backup and continue from my saves? (think legend of zelda). Or are there other files I need to backup. Thanks. And thanks for all your work with these videos.
gonna use use this for my pihole
no introduction short video. nice!
Awesome one!
What screen are you using?
Good News, Great video
I don't understand why it doesn't work for me? I don't get the welcome to raspberry pi menu option.
Im super new to this and just got my first Pi. I have the card with noobs on it and have the pi set up. Could I do this with the sd card to add retropie to my boot up screen?
Bonjour from paris france, QUESTION ??? I tried doing this on a usb 4g stick so i can use it on an old laptop to run as an emuklator, but when it boots the screens stays all black lit. how can i fix that
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to re-image a card. I’m not sure what’s happening but I’m pretty sure it has to do with the way the imager handles user password, first off only typing it ONCE is a major mistake as there’s a reason everyone wants you to type it twice. I’m sure I’ve made typos and with secure passwords it’s impossible to play with combinations until you guess it, so I tried to copy/paste the password to ensure it was right but there’s no option to show password like there is for the wlan pass... I think the imager does something to the pasted password because I simply cannot log in via SSH when I do that, it’s incredibly frustrating imaging a card multiple times over something so absurd. It could all be fixed by allowing the user to reveal the password and/or making you type it twice. Without the default user doing it wrong can only be fixed with a fresh OS install.
Can we install ubantu core using this
I did all steps and I get no display anyone know how to fix this? 😫
i try manytime burn new 128gb sd card retropie or raspian image but alltime fail burning, not working.
hey man, any chance you could do a comparison of the 3 different images for the odroid go advance, I'm running retro arena now but batocera and emuelec are looking really cool too??
One problem it took my 256gb to 3gb
i tried doing this twice but it damaged both of my sd cards.any idea why?SD cars were 8GB and i use windows 10.
Hi could you make a video or direct me on how to turn a surface RT into an emulation station? I've been wondering if it could have some use or is it just frankly speaking going to garbage?
I picked the perfect time to buy 2 raspberry pie 3b + lol
What about sd cards > 32gb
Hi there i am trying to install windows 10 ARM onto an sd card, having no luck with the usual programs can i do it with this?
i have a thing to ask have thay fixed the hdmi problem that ppl are saying is a power problem or not cus i still have yet to use my pi 4 i own
Nice video :) Is there an imager that will work on raspian ?
I can use it to re flash my back up image correct.
Curious to know if it would work for other linux distros 🤔 I think I've used Etcher for my Lubuntu install.
how do you then download recommended applications from raspbian OS? do you need to manually download them via the command window?
It's a shame it's Ubuntu in the Linux verse, and I reckon Debian or Debian based distros could be coaxed. Gentoo, Redhat and Arch or derivatives are likely to be a struggle.
Hi was wondering if u can help me out been having trouble with retro pie it keeps freezing on me
Is the SD card going to work with a pc if you boot into it? And I'd like to do that with a USB drive, can I do that instead?
How does this work? When a new version of raspbian comss out but you have a version of the imager that you downloaded previously how does it update?
Hi, can you make a video on how to install damaso nostalgia trip 128gb on an new raspberry pi 4 with an empty sd card please?
Does this require x86?
Would be nice to be able to write images on your pi, for your pi.
I do this with the help of dd, even immediately from the archive with the image you can write
www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.md
That's cool it will download Linux and flash the card.
Anything is better than etcher. Not sure why it's grown to 130MB and caonnects to the internet for a simple disk imager. I wish win32diskimager would work on my win10n machine that was just perfect.
How about flashing more than one OS onto your card? Can you do that? Like Raspbian and RetroPi together
Would I use this to install octoprint also?
does it see retropie as one sd card not 2
you should do a video about RGB-Pi
Hello, can we use 128gb sd card, is there any issue to use large size of memory card for raspberry pi