i just brought a raspberry pi 3 how do i connect with a laptop and how do i knw the IP adress of my pi

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i just brought a raspberry pi how do i knw wat is the IP and how do i connect using an ethernet cable . please suggest

rachaelp · Answer

You say you have just bought it, have you done anything with it yet? Have you installed an OS, if so which one?

If you literally have just bought it and have done nothing with it at all then start here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/hardware-guide/

For the basic initial setup of the OS then go here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/hardware-guide/quickstart/

Once you can boot into the OS then you can get either your Ethernet or wifi connections working with the instructions here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/hardware-guide/networking/

So, if you have done all the above and have a working Pi connected to your network then you can find out its IP address from the linux command line by typing

ifconfig

Then from your laptop, with either the native terminal (Linux/macOS) or via a third party tool like PuTTY (windows) you can connect to the Pi with:

ssh <ip of my pi>

It'll bring you to the login prompt and you enter the credentials you use to log into the Pi directly.

Best Regards,

Rachael

fvan · Answer

* Flash the SD card

* Insert the SD card in the Pi

* Connect the ethernet cable between Pi and home network

* Power on Pi

The Pi runs DHCP, so it should automatically get an IP from your home router. You should be able to "ping raspberrypi.local".

rachaelp · Answer

Meet Jethwa wrote:

which OS shud i install and where wud the ip stored in the os because i want to boot it using an ethernet cable on my macbook pro

You should probably just use Raspbian as most of the tutorials available are based on this.

As for how to set it up to network boot from your macbook pro....

Here is the detailed instructions for network booting from the Raspberry Pi website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/net_tutorial.md

In this guide they are using a second pi as the NFS server for booting the pi. You'll need to copy all the required files for booting your Pi to an NFS server hosted on your mac. I assume as you are running a mac you know how to do this but here is a place to start if you don't: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282644/how-to-share-directory-over-nfs-from-mac-w-o-macos-server-app

I've not tried doing this myself as I don't have a Pi3 so beyond the above I would just be googling for answers which I recommend you do directly

Best Regards,

Rachael

RParkerE · Answer

If you are still stuck or confused after reading through all of the information already provided I suggest you following a setup tutorial.

If you have a monitor and keyboard connected to your device use this tutorial.

Otherwise, follow this tutorial for setting up your device without a monitor or keyboard.

rachaelp · Answer

When you are logged into your Pi, issue the passwd command and follow the instructions. Alternatively if you want to set up so you can ssh from a linux/mac desktop to the Pi without typing a password you can follow what I did for my GigaByte BRIX in my blog post here: Updating security for remotely connecting to my servers via SSH Best Regards, Rachael

rachaelp · Answer

Meet Jethwa wrote:

so basically without the OS on the SD card my pi is just a hardware and the configurations and the ip address will be in the raspbian image that i install right ???

Yes, you need to install an OS onto an SD card, otherwise it's just a piece of hardware and then once you have an OS installed (e.g. Raspbian) then all the network configuration is all done in there. As fvan states, the default Pi setup uses DHCP so it should obtain an IP address directly from your router (assuming you have a fairly typical home setup).

Best Regards,

Rachael

mjethwa · Answer

how to place the SSH file in the root partition