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Setting up Headless Raspberry Pi 4 as a Home Server Part 1

27.09.2020 — 1 min read

I actively use Raspberry Pis for bots (like Telegram, and Twitter), getting information from connected sensors, running cryptocurrency nodes, and so on. With Ubuntu 64-bit support, Raspberry Pi 4 is more useful and affordable than many VPSs for me.

Because of lots of repetitive setup requirements, I wanted to turn the notes I took into blog posts that I can easily access later. You can think of this blog series as a cheatsheet.

Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to MicroSD Card

1-) Download Raspberry Pi Imager from raspberrypi.org/downloads/

2-) Insert your MicroSD card into your computer

3-) Open Raspberry Pi Imager

4-) Choose Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit and your MicroSD card

5-) Click the Write

6-) Let's wait until the writing process is done as below

Setting Up Wi-Fi

1-) Navigate the "system-boot” partition on the MicroSD card and edit the network-config file with your network settings

1# This file contains a netplan-compatible configuration which cloud-init
2# will apply on first-boot. Please refer to the cloud-init documentation and
3# the netplan reference for full details:
4#
5# https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/
6# https://netplan.io/reference
7#
8# Some additional examples are commented out below
9
10version: 2
11ethernets:
12  eth0:
13    dhcp4: true
14    optional: true
15wifis:
16  wlan0:
17    dhcp4: true
18    optional: true
19    access-points:
20      "YOUR_NETWORK_NAME":
21        password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
22#      workssid:
23#        auth:
24#          key-management: eap
25#          method: peap
26#          identity: "me@example.com"
27#          password: "passw0rd"
28#          ca-certificate: /etc/my_ca.pem

2-) Insert the MicroSD card into Raspberry Pi and power it up.

Note: In the first boot, RPI couldn't connect to Wi-Fi But after the poweroff and powerup again, it could able to connect.

Accessing Raspberry Pi Via SSH

1-) Find Raspberry Pi 4 IP address with this command

1arp -na | grep -i "dc:a6:32"

2-) Default username and password for Ubuntu 20.04 is "ubuntu". So you can connect with the following command:

1ssh ubuntu@YOUR_RPI_IP_ADDRESS

And that's it. RPI is ready for your services now.

Setting up Headless Raspberry Pi 4 as a Home Server Part 1

Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to MicroSD Card

Setting Up Wi-Fi

Accessing Raspberry Pi Via SSH

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