What is going on?!?! I'm not a beginner but pretend I am because things seem really messed up by default.
I just got a new raspberrypi 5 with 8G of ram. I use Fedora KDE as my daily driver.
I have no means of plugging in my pi to a monitor I did not buy the adapters needed. I installed the snap package for the rpi-imager
version 1.9.0
I selected raspberry pi 5
raspberry pi OS (64 bit)
I choose my 64G SD card to image
I then edited it to enable ssh (didn't work found solution mentioned below)
I added a username and password (didn't work found solution mentioned below)
I changed the hostname (didn't work)
the installer finished and I plugged in the SD card to the pi and nothing no new devices listed on my router's dhcp reservations
my pi is plugged into the ethernet port I prefer ethernet over wifi
I overwrote my sd card with zero's
I looked for a solution and saw mention of needing a >2 version of rpi-imager for the newer debian images
OK so I go to https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new- ... pi-imager/
download imager_2.0.6_amd64.AppImage
I ran that and choose the same options
I then reinstalled the sd card in the pi
and this time I saw a new computer on my network
I try to ssh to it and ssh is not running.
I do some research and see I need to create ssh on the boot partition so I do so and that worked
I try to login and it doesn't recognize my username and password I do some research and saw I need to create userconf.txt also on boot
with "username:encrypted_password"
used "echo "your_password" | openssl passwd -6 -stdin" to create my encrypted_password
as suggested by AI and wala that worked I can login
but that is not the end I can not upgrade
I'm stuck here where did I do wrong? Why is this seeming so barbaric?
I'm not a new user but really pretend I am I thought the rasperry pi had the best supported boards but I am having second thoughts about it now.
I just got a new raspberrypi 5 with 8G of ram. I use Fedora KDE as my daily driver.
I have no means of plugging in my pi to a monitor I did not buy the adapters needed. I installed the snap package for the rpi-imager
version 1.9.0
I selected raspberry pi 5
raspberry pi OS (64 bit)
I choose my 64G SD card to image
I then edited it to enable ssh (didn't work found solution mentioned below)
I added a username and password (didn't work found solution mentioned below)
I changed the hostname (didn't work)
the installer finished and I plugged in the SD card to the pi and nothing no new devices listed on my router's dhcp reservations
my pi is plugged into the ethernet port I prefer ethernet over wifi
I overwrote my sd card with zero's
I looked for a solution and saw mention of needing a >2 version of rpi-imager for the newer debian images
OK so I go to https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new- ... pi-imager/
download imager_2.0.6_amd64.AppImage
I ran that and choose the same options
I then reinstalled the sd card in the pi
and this time I saw a new computer on my network
I try to ssh to it and ssh is not running.
I do some research and see I need to create ssh on the boot partition so I do so and that worked
I try to login and it doesn't recognize my username and password I do some research and saw I need to create userconf.txt also on boot
with "username:encrypted_password"
used "echo "your_password" | openssl passwd -6 -stdin" to create my encrypted_password
as suggested by AI and wala that worked I can login
but that is not the end I can not upgrade
I'm stuck here where did I do wrong? Why is this seeming so barbaric?
I'm not a new user but really pretend I am I thought the rasperry pi had the best supported boards but I am having second thoughts about it now.
Statistics: Posted by penguinjeff — Fri Feb 06, 2026 5:08 pm — Replies 5 — Views 79