[Damogran6]

My hassle is usually: Where do I dig up that keyboard and spare HDMI video source to bootstrap the Pi. Currently the MAME cabinet does that well, but not everyone has a MAME cabinet.

[avip]

You don’t. You just enable ssh and connect it to network. Essentially ‘touch /boot/ssh’

[azinman2]

But you can’t do that from a raspbian image, and if you want me to mod my file system post install that only works assuming I can mount it (eg I have another Linux box with keyboard).

I’ve had this problem multiple times and find this approach really nice (and wish it shipped with raspbian!)

[otachack]

But where was the SD card flashed? I think the idea is to enable ssh right after flashing the image.

[azinman2]

Say on a Mac or windows box.

[avip]

But /boot is a FAT32 partition, it's mountable on practiacally any os I'm aware of. On a mac it'll be under /Volumes/boot.

[azinman2]

Unless I’m mistaken, /boot isn’t where any kind of network / ssh config would live.

[kingosticks]

/boot is a fat partition. You can mount that from most OSs.

Edit: forgive me, I see that's not what you meant at all. Or maybe it was? Either way, the point is valid.