#Headless Setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W (Raspberry Pi 3 Wireless) (macOS)
- Formatt the Micro SD card - Open a terminal and type 'diskutil list'. Find your card and copy the disk name (For example: /dev/disk4). Format the card with
diskutil eraseDisk ExFat temp disk4(Use your disk here)
- Download Raspbian -
wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest
- Unmount the SD card -
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
or whatever your disk path is - Mount the Raspbian image to the card -
sudo dd if=PATH-TO-RASPBIAN-IMAGE
of=/dev/disk4` or whatever your disk path is - Enable SSH on the Pi -
cd /Volumes && ls
. You should see a boot partition from the SD cardcd boot && touch ssh
- Setup WiFi on the PI - While still in the boot partition add a
wpa_supplicant.conf
file with your wifi configurations (example is attached) - Boot the PI - Unmount the card
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
(or whatever your disk path is) and put it in the Pi, then power up the Pi