The following description explain how to create, install and setup a fresh SD card for your WiFi without use of monitor and keyboard from windows. It is passable to use this description to a Raspberry PI zero also but then you also have to add an WiFi dongle. You can see the process in this video: How to install RP without monitor and keyboard
Create SD card with Raspbian image and setup the installation
- Download Raspbian stretch lite from http://www.raspberrypi.org
- Unzip and install image to SD card with Win32DiskImager
- Open SD card, create emty file named ssh.
- Also create file named wpa_supplicant.conf and insert the following content into the file:
country=DK
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
ssid="WIFI_SSID"
scan_ssid=1
psk="WIFI_PASSWORD"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
Change ssid and psk to meet the setting of your WiFi
- Insert SD card in RP and power it up
- Find the IP address of your RP
- Now you can connect to your RP with SSH (putty or similar)