Install Raspbian on an SD card and install needed tools
Let’s start configuring your client system for netboot. This is the Raspberry Pi that will eventually boot without a micro SD card installed.
- Download PiOS Lite. For this tutorial I used the Bullseye release.
- Copy the Bullseye image onto an SD card. I suggest using the PiOS Imager. Warning! This will overwrite data on the device specified. Triple check you are writing to the SD card and not your laptop drive!
- Put the SD card in your client Raspberry Pi 4 and boot it. Using the lite version of raspbian give you a text console only. If you want a graphical console you can use the full version and it should work. I have not tested this workflow with the full version.
- Log in via the console using the login you created with the Imager.
- Connect your Raspberry Pi to the internet via an ethernet cable.
- Update PiOS via apt-get and install the rpi-config program: