We recommend to install the Raspbian OS. You can put it on a USB stick or an SD card. We will do the latter one.
Install the Raspberry Pi imager from the [official website](https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/).
Click on 'Choose OS', in 'Raspberry Pi OS (other)', select 'Raspberry Pi OS Lite'. Then choose the SD card and start writing the OS on it.
### Enable SSH
If you want to access the Raspberry Pi from your computer via an SSH connection, you should first enable it. To do so, open the SD card 'rootfs' partition from your computer and create an empty file called `ssh` in the `/boot` folder.
You can now put the SD card back into the Raspberry Pi. Plug it to your computer using an ethernet cable set your wired connection IPv4 method to 'Shared to other computers' to share your WiFi connection with the Raspberry Pi.
You can now power up the Raspberry Pi. In a terminal, connect to the Raspberry Pi using ssh:
```sh
ssh pi@raspberrypi.local
```
The default password is `raspberrypi`. You can change it later using:
```sh
passwd
```
### Required packages
You have to install a few packages to follow this guide smoothly.
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You should see that the wlan0 is now connected to AccessPoint.
### Connect via SSH
### SSH connection
You can connect via SSH to the Raspberry in two different ways:
