I got my hands on the Raspberry Pi 5 few weeks ago, but I wasn’t able to use it for any purpose (more like I’m out of ideas). I mostly wanted to test the pihole in my network, but using Pi 5 just for that would be an overkill!

So I got a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and installed Pihole natively. I wrote a post about it, feel free check-out. Also, when I ordered for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, I forgot to order for a microSD, so I used the one in the Pi 5 which is a 64GB microSD card (I know it’s an overkill!). The entire Pi Zero is running just the Pihole with a 64GB microSD.

  • Keep it mind that we’re using the Pi 5 as an headless machine!
  • I’m using the Fedora Linux for setting up Raspberry Pi 5.

Let’s Install Raspberry Pi OS

  1. Insert the microSD into a card reader and plug it into the computer.

    • Choose the device that you want to install as:
      • Raspberry Pi 5 - Raspberry Pi 5, 500 and Computing Module 5
    • Choose the Operating System as Raspberry Pi OS (other):
      • Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) - A port of Debian Bookworm with no desktop environment
    • Choose the Storage as the one that you plugged. (and click “Next”…)

  2. It would show a prompt, make sure to edit them by clicking the “Edit Settings” button:

    • Set a custom hostname, username and password (don’t forget!).
    • Configure the wireless network (since you are going to be using a headless machine, make sure that it can automatically ssh into the network, else you won’t be able to access it unless you connect a keyboard & display).
    • Change the timezone and keyboard layout (optional!)
    • Head into SERVICES > Click “Enable SSH - Use Password Authentication”
    • Feel free to check other settings (if you completed the above mentioned steps, then you are done!)

  3. Finally, click install it would download and install the OS in ~30 minutes.

Let’s ssh into the Pi 5

  1. Login to your router and copy the IP address allocated the hostname pi-master.
  2. Then, ssh into the Pi 5:
ssh username@192.168.1.x

Replace username & 192.168.1.x with the your credentials.

  1. Update the packages
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

By now, you would have a stable OS running in the Pi without any problems!