raspberry pi

Prepare an SD-card for Raspberry Pi (3)

Written by  on July 30, 2017

Download latest Raspbian-image:
* https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest

Install etcher:
* add “deb https://dl.bintray.com/resin-io/debian stable etcher” to /etc/apt/sources.list
* “sudo apt-key adv –keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 –recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61”
* “sudo apt update && sudo apt install etcher-electron”

Use etcher .. (I think this step is self-explanatory).

20190807: etcher for Win (10): https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/ – also as portable version

RPi: force certain resolution for VNC in headless mode

Written by  on October 7, 2016

Edit /boot/config.txt (maybe via “$ sudo nano /boot/config.txt”) and add the following two lines:

Other sources suggest also to tinker with the hdmi_mode, but for my Raspberry Pi 3 this was sufficient.

Full official manual for config.txt.