Nice, this is what I was after1. Setting up the raspberry pi has always been a bit of a faff. I run them all "headlessly" which means with no keyboard or monitor attached, only a wifi dongle usually (plus camera or temperature hardware or whatever). This is fine, I can connect to them over the network to do everything I need to do, but in order to get them on the network in the first place you need to key in your network credentials, and for that you need a keyboard to type with and a monitor to see what you're typing don't you?
I thought about taking the sd card with all of the raspberry pi operating system on and running it in virtual box but it's easier than that of course, if this is right1, once the sd card is mounted (plugged in to the card reader on the side of the laptop and recognised) then I can edit the files directly from my laptop.
I'll be able to get my raspberry pi zero up and running asap. And I didn't need to wait for the cable bundle2. I do actually need another wifi dongle though, wonder if I have one spare somewhere...
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
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