

Note: it is possible to make it work over WiFi as well, but it is far less stabel and quite a bit more complicated to configure, if you for some reason MUST use WiFi, I suggest using google to find a recent guide on how to connect with WiFi and the moving on with the rest of this guide when you are connected. Insert it in your raspberry pi, connect it to your router with ethernet cable and finally connect the power supple to run it on.

This file will enable SSH so that we can access the linux terminal over LAN with putty. We need to add a empty file by the name "ssh" with no extension.

Your operating system should recognize it as a drive, open it up in explorer (windows) or finder (mac). When your imager is finished writing to your sdcard take it our of you card reader and insert it again. Next choose your sdcard and finally click the Write button. We do not need the visual GUI desktop interface, in fact we don't want to waste CPU and RAM on running that, instead we want all the resources to be dedicated to PMS (Plex Media Sever) for best performance.ĭownload Raspberry Pi Imager from the official raspberry pi website Ĭhoose OS -> Rasbperry Pi OS (other) -> Raspberry Pi OS Lite Raspberry Pi OS since we are building a server and not a player. We want to install the headless version of raspbian aka. Prepare sdcard with headless Raspberry Pi OS (raspbian)
