With the Raspberry Pi Imager tool, the process of writing a standard operating system image onto a microSD card is easy.
Taking advantage of the Imager's advanced features, I customized the connectivity settings, allowing me to remotely access the Raspberry Pi immediately after powering it on for the first time.
Imager
Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit)
SD Card
I used 'pi' as the admin username
I provide a hostname and enabled SSH (remote terminal access)
I pressed the WRITE button
I did want to erase the SD Card
The writing process took some time...
Finished
I put the Micro SD Card into the Raspberry Pi and plugged in the power
I used ping to check that the Raspberry Pi was connected to the network
I connected to the Raspberry Pi using SSH
sudo apt-get install xrdp
I added a new administrative account "neil"
Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (for MacOS)
Connected to raspberrypi.local as neil
