Raspberry pi 3 (Raspbian Jessie) Headless Setup

2 min readJan 13, 2019

Install Raspbian Jessie lite on Raspberry Pi 3

Now we will start Installation of Raspbian Jessie lite on Raspberry Pi 3.

We are planning to do #Headless setup (No Monitor and No keyboard required)

Download the required software
・SA Association — SD Card Formatter
・Etcher — Burn Images to SD card (for windows use Win32DiskImager)
・Raspbian Stretch Lite — official OS for Raspberry Pi
Format SD card — This will ensure memory usage of SD card
Burn OS image to SD card — Download OS
Go to root directory in SD card and make a file named as “ssh”— This will allow us to ssh into our Raspberry pi for our #Headless setup
Go to root directory in SD card and make a file named “wpa_supplicant.conf” — This will connect WiFi network
Add the following content in configure file. network={ ssid="testing" psk="testingPassword" }
Attach Raspberry Pi to a Power supply — Red light will indicate power supply and green light will indicate SD card access. (we have to wait for a couple of minutes as OS is booting)
Find the Raspberry Pi IP address — I did trial and error method. My mac local IP address was 192.168.0.6 so tried doing a ping from 192.168.0.1~192.168.0.10 and I found my Raspberry Pi address — It was 192.168.0.8
Try ssh into Raspberry pi using Username: pi and Password: raspberry

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install -y rpi-update
$ sudo rpi-update
$ sudo reboot