Format the Raspberry PI SDCard...
https://www.sdcard.org/
Format SD Card to FAT32
Plug in the SD card into Windows PC
and format it,
also
Disk Management allows
you to format it to FAT32
Download OS
Raspbian is the official OS for the Pi based on Debian Linux.
Download the image file for your specific Pi model.
The installer called NOOBS Lite
Network install only ,
zip download file.
Install Operating System(OS), on microSD Card
To install an operating system, you'll need two things: an image file,
and a program that will write it to your SD card.
For writing to the SD card, using BalenaEtcher, since it's
available for Windows,
Just launch Etcher, click the Select Image button, and choose
the file you just downloaded. Choose your SD card as the target
and click Flash.
...Ready to Boot
***.. ABOUT THE RASPBERRY PI ZERO
Pi Zero Ethernet Over USB | SSH Into Pi
Go to the SD Card
and open the Boot partition,
and find the file
config.txt
go to the end of text
and
paste into
<dtoverlay=dwc2>
Second find the
cmdline.txt:
move into the command line
until finding
rootwait,
make sure to create spacing
to keep the right format
and paste
modules-load=dwc2,g_ether
and
Third,
Create an empty file
named ssh
without any extension
PowerUp the raspberry Zero
and
ping RaspberryPi.Local
if ok,
log with ssh
user, Pi
password, raspberry
if you Pi ZERO, do not have
WiFi,
set your computer to sharing
this will be ok.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md
Setting WiFi up via the command line
Using raspi-config
The quickest way to enable wireless networking is
to use the command line raspi-config tool.
sudo raspi-config
or....Adding the network details to the Raspberry Pi
Open the wpa-supplicant configuration file in nano:
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Go to the bottom of the file and add the following:
network={
ssid="testing"
psk="testingPassword"
}
Getting WiFi network details
To scan for WiFi networks, use the
command sudo iwlist wlan0 scan.
This will list all available WiFi networks,
along with other useful information. Look out for:
'ESSID:"testing"' is the name of the WiFi network.
Windows, Back up Raspberry Pi SD card .
save and restore files
Back up
Raspberry Pi, Copy SD card as
an image. using Win32 Disk Imager,
Reference: < https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/back-up-raspberry-pi>
Windows, download Win32 Disk Imager: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/>
Image file, select destination for the raspberryPi.img file
and Device is the stoage of the reaspberryPi SD Card.
...
Restoring back up to RaspberryPi