Also, if you mount the SD card on your Windows machine, the machine will find a number of separate virtual drives on the card, some of which it will say aren't formatted and many or all of which may be only labeled as 'Disk X.' If they're not formatted, DON'T LET WINDOWS FORMAT THEM. If you have a multi-booted Raspberry Pi as do I, you need to look around a little to find the right partition. If you're using Windows as a computer to edit the SD card, Notepad++ is a safe word processor to read and write Unix/Linux style text files (which end lines with only a line feed, unlike Windows which uses a line feed/carriage return pair).

The boot partition is a VFAT partition and (at least on my SD card) is small - around 500 MBytes.) Because it's a VFAT partition, it can be seen, written and read by either pretty much any computer or OS - Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. It's not labeled on my Windows machine as Azeam shows it. You can use a Windows machine as well, but you need to know where to put the file. I'd like to add the following comment: Azeam's instructions above pertain most directly to a non-Windows computer (Linux, Unix, Mac, etc.) The above file needs to be added to the boot partition of the Libreelec SD card. From memory, the same remote has worked on other LE boxes post-setup. Is there any way I can pre-configure the WiFi on the SD card before inserting it into the Pi so that it is enabled as soon as the Pi boots for the first time? I know Raspbian and other distros allow you to place wpa_nf into /boot on the SD, but last I checked LE doesn't use wpa_supplicant.Īlternately, does anyone have any other suggestions? I was also hoping I might be able to use a remove via CEC - and the adapter does pop up as discovered - but I can't seem to use it navigate the setup screens. Unfortunately, the Zero W also does not have ethernet, so I can't get it one the network without WiFi connection details. In theory I could then complete the setup remotely. I know I can enable the ssh daemon by editing cmdline.txt before inserting the SD card into the Pi. The RPI Zero W has only micro USB, so I can't (easily) set it up with a keyboard.

They have always had full-sized USB ports, so I've always done the initial config using a USB keyboard. I've installed OE/LE on many arm boxes before.

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