Pidora-Headless-Mode

What is headless mode?

Headless mode is a system configuration in which the display device, keyboard, or mouse is lacking. When this feature is enabled, firstboot is bypassed.

Security Warning!
If you are going to use headless mode it is critical that you change the root password as soon as possible, because Pidora is set with a default root password that is publicized.

Enabling headless mode on Pidora

Tutorial Video:

http://youtu.be/ALUAmw6Mz_o

If you would like to enable headless mode, you will need to create a file named "headless" in the following directory on your SD card.

/boot

Note
If you are using a Windows OS you will need to remove the .txt file extension on the headless file.

More information on removing file extensions:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6394953_create-file-extension.html

There are two possible configurations for headless-mode "DHCP" configuration and "Static" configuration.

DHCP Configuration

If you would like to obtain an ip address dynamically via DHCP create an empty file in the boot directory named "headless"

Static Configuration

If you would like to specify a specific IP address you will need to include the IP Address, Netmask and Gateway. Create a file called "headless" and include the following information

Sample headless file Static Configuration

IPADDR=192.168.1.105
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

Headless Mode is enable how do I find out what my ip-address?

After you have enabled headless mode with either the DHCP configuration or Static IP configuration, the ip address that has been assigned to Raspberry Pi will be played through the speakers "2 minutes" after you have powered the Raspberry Pi, "30 seconds" after the ip information has been played it will also flash your ip address through Pi's LED lights.

More information about ip-read and ip-flash:

https://github.com/ctyler/ip-info/blob/master/README.md