Setup Pi Zero 2W without a screen?

[AJRobson]

I won a Pi Zero 2W so I thought I’d use it with DietPi and set up PiHole. All my other Pi’s have been fine to set up because I can connect them to a screen, the issue is I don’t have a mini hdmi cable or converter to use with the pi Zero.

I’ve installed dietpi and connected it to my router using a usb to ethernet dongle, I can see the dongle is flashing so I’m assuming there’s a connection.

I’ve looked at the list of connected devices from my routers page and tried ssh root@ for all the ipv4 and ssh root@[] for all the ipv6 devices but none of them connect.

Before I order a mini hdmi to hdmi converter is there a script or something I can add to the boot section of the sd card that will print out the ip address or give me some info as to what’s happening?

Thanks for any help!

[Jappe]

You could setup a manual network config which will be applied on the very first boot, so you would need to re-flash, change dietpi.txt and boot the device.
https://dietpi.com/docs/usage/#how-to-do-an-automatic-base-installation-at-first-boot-dietpi-automation

[AJRobson]

Thanks, that worked!