Even if you couldn't mount the boot partition on any common desktop OS and setup ssh + wpa_supplicant (it's FAT32), I would greatly prefer the simplicity of a l

Even if you couldn't mount the boot partition on any common desktop OS and setup ssh + wpa_supplicant (it's FAT32), I would greatly prefer the simplicity of a local console session with a $2 USB-serial adapter (am I the only weirdo with dozens of these lying around?). Typically I actually just mount the partitions and chroot with qemu-arm, upgrade packages, and do all of the setup before the SD card is ever inserted in a real Pi. proot[0] makes all this a walk in the park. mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot proot -q qemu-arm -S /mnt [0] https://proot-me.github.io https://proot-me.github.io