Now he has to wait for the pi to go through it first boot up cycle which is longer than normal. Now you just need to eject the SD card place in in the pi connect the pi to his router with a cable and apply power, if he has a screen then connecting that too would be a good idea so he can see what the pi is doing. Then once the image write is completed and before removing the SD card from his pc he need to create a new file called ssh or ssh.txt on to the card, if using windows pc you create the file in the only partition windows shows. Then he can use etcher to write the image file on to the SD card. Then he needs to download and install etcher.

Įither the full or just the desktop versions will have VNC ready installed. You can't skip the install process as raspbian needs installing on an SD card.īut you don't need a keyboard or mouse, as long as your buddy has a card reader that supports SDHC cards.įirst off your buddy needs to download the raspbian desktop images from here. img and write it to the raspberry memory trough my buddy's laptop, and finally leave the raspberry working and skipping all the installation process.

Raspberry pi teamviewer or vnc