The best way prepare a SSD for booting is to use the Raspberry Pi Imager to directly write/flash the Pi software directly to the SSD. Just like when you wrote the Pi software to the SDCard but instead direct the output to the SSD.
Be sure to establish a username and password by by selecting NEXT and responding EDIT SETTINGS to the Use OS customization? question. Do these things:
Set a hostname
Set a Username - you might want to consider the username pi
Set a Password for the Username
Configure the wireless LAN SSID and password if appropriate
Set the locale settings if appropriate
Click SAVE
Click YES
After building the SSD and booting the Pi from the SSD, logon with the Username and Password, and then run the "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt full-upgrade" commands.
Butch
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After watching many video's on this subject, I found not one of them state the Pi have to be connected to the internet to enable updating.
Wireless connection is not an option. Tethering from a phone is the only option available. That is where I'm having problems.
The SSD is USB connected, so flashing it directly is not a problem. Again, not one vid I watched suggested this idea.
For the OS, should I chose the Pi 4 64 bit or Bootloader Pi4 ? Some vid's say one, some the other.
Regardless, I tried formatting the SSD in Fat 32, then tried to flash the Bootloader first. That didn't work. I got an error message.
Then I tried the 64bit Bookworm. Same error message.
But then I kept trying. Now it says it flashed the 64bit.
When I booted up, I got the screen that is a photo attachment.
Not sure where to go from here.
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I tried to attach a photo of the screen but I can figure out how this forum allows a photo to be posted.
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Statistics: Posted by Chester Mayfield — Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:45 am