How to Install Ubuntu on raspberry pi without monitor and keyboard (headless)

How are we doing it?

• We will burn ISO image on the memory card with Win32DiskImager
• Then we will power up the pi with SD card on
• We need to connect pi to your router via WiFi or Ethernet Cable so that we can get a local ip
• Once we get the local ip, we will SSH into the pi from our desktop and set it up as per the requirement
• Boom. That’s it.

Prepare SD card

• Visit ubuntu and download the OS version as per your requirement
• Download Win32DiskImager and install it.
• Make Sure you have formatted the SD card in FAT32
• Select the ISO image and SD card in win32disk imager and hit write
• open the SD card in file explorer, and create a extension less file named as ssh in system-boot directory
• Create another extension less file in same directory and named it as a network-config and add following lines to it

wifis:
  wlan0:
  dhcp4: true
  optional: true
  access-points:
    <wifi network name>:
      password: "<wifi password>"

• Once its done, your ready to go.

Connect to pi

• If you have Ethernet cable, connect it to your router and get pi’s local IP from routers admin webpage
• If you don’t have a Ethernet cable then make sure you have added WiFi details so it pi can automatically get connected to your router. find the local IP from router page
• Use following command from terminal to ssh into the pi

ssh ubuntu@<Raspberry Pi’s IP address>

You will be asked to confirm the connection:

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?

Type “yes” to confirm.

Done.

Now setup the OS as per your use case.