The Raspberry Pi Imager is a great piece of software for preparing your SD cards for use with Raspberry Pis. However, if you’re setting up a number of Raspberry Pis you will find that you still need to connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to them to complete the setup, to:

  • update the wifi ssid and password
  • change the hostname and default password
  • change localization settings

There is another, better alternative to doing those 3 steps - use the Raspberry Pi Imager secret menu.

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