Installing Ubuntu 22

  1. Go to https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ and download the Raspberry Pi Imager
  2. Under Choose OS, select Other general-purpose OS → Ubuntu
  3. Choose Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS (64-bit)
  4. Pick your SD card, and then click write

Registering on USU-guest (Optional)

This section is only necessary if you want to be on the school Wi-Fi, the first section is helpful though if you’re setting up home Wi-Fi, or just want to use hotspot.

First Login and Connection to temporary hotspot

  1. After turning on, wait for all the BEGIN SSH HOST KEYS stuff to finish (you can’t login before that)
  2. Default login is:
    1. username: ubuntu
    2. password: ubuntu
  3. I used my phone hotspot for this next part, but connect to internet following this guide (any internet that actually has a password will work):
    1. https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-22-04-connect-to-wifi-from-command-line
  4. After you connect to your Wi-Fi, you’ll be switching to a different computer for a sec.

Getting MAC Address

ip address

Look for the line that has wlan0: <BROADCAST……

After that line, there will be one that says

link/ether b8:27……

Copy the letters after to get the MAC Address. For me, it looked like b8:27:eb:76:ab:ba

  1. Open https://netreg.usu.edu/registrations/ and on the right, register the raspberry pi using the mac address you got in the previous step
  2. Now switch back to raspberry pi