Set Up Raspberry Pi 4 through laptop/pc using Ethernet cable(No Monitor, No Wi-Fi)

In this we shall be working with Raspberry Pi 4 Model-B of 1Gb RAM for the set up. Raspberry-Pi is a single board computer used for educational purposes and DIY projects with an affordable cost, requires a power supply of 5V 3A.

Operating Systems like Raspbian OS, Windows, Linux, RISC OS, can be installed into it. The Pi 4 model has Ethernet, wireless adapter, USB type-C port, and 40 GPIO(General Purpose Input Output) pins. Unlike the older versions the performance has very much improved with the Pi 4 model.

Steps to install the required software tools

1. From the official raspberrypi.org download the Raspbian Buster operating system

2. Also download the Raspberry Pi Imager from the same website, this is for writing the image file onto the SD card.

3. If you are using windows you probably have to download the ssh client, I prefer downloading Bitvise ssh client from PuTTY.

4. To access the desktop of the pi, you can either connect a micro to HDMI connector from the pi to a monitor or you can access it remotely on your PC/laptop. To connect remotely VNC-server has to be installed onto the pi by default the VNC-server is installed within the operating system, in order to view it remotely one has to download VNC-Viewer on his/her Desktop.

5. Open the Raspberry Pi Imager and select the custom setup then select the OS from the Downloaded folder and carefully set the target as USB drive. Wait for the image to be written on the drive.

6. After done, open the boot folder, create a new document named “ssh” without any extensions, save and then unmount the drive.

7. Now connect the Ethernet cable to your PC/lap and power up the pi with the type-C cable.

8. If you are using Windows 10 go to Control Panel --> Network and Internet --> Network Connections, right-click on Wi-Fi select properties, go to sharing section and check on “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection”. Make sure that Home network connection is Ethernet. Save and close the window.

11. If this is your first time logging into pi make sure to update your pi by issuing the command “sudo apt-get update” and then “sudo apt-get upgrade” to upgrade.

Accessing Pi Desktop Remotely

12. Go to terminal and type "vncserver", notedown the generated ip address. Now open VNC-Viewer on your desktop and enter the address or paste it, after few seconds a window pops sharing the screen of raspberry pi d