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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

by Edward Snajder
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
422 pages
8h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Changing RPZ configuration settings from the command line

Now that we are quickly becoming command-line masters, let's see what sort of hacking we can do with the Raspberry Pi configuration. We've done a little of this before with the USB OTG hacks; let's find out what other interesting settings we can change in the system.

Getting ready

We're going to continue working from the terminal and do a few things that aren't possible in raspi-config.

How to do it...

  1. The key file to edit the Raspberry Pi Zero's startup configuration is /boot/config.txt. Let's take a look at the entire file. We have already edited that to enable USB OTG gadget functionality, but there are a ton of settings that can be added to it. Let's add the following to the config.txt ...
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