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I don't have a screen for my Raspberry Pi. I want to SSH into it, but I get Connection Refused, so I presume SSH is not enabled.

As advised in other questions I have looked at enabling the boot_enable_ssh.rc script on the sd card. However I don't have a boot directory in my OS (or it is not visible via the card reader in my iMac) - 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img.

I have also tried issuing the following commands via a usb keyboard:

pi [enter]
raspberry [enter]
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start [enter]
raspberry [enter]

But this hasn't worked. Now in some docs I see that raspi-config is the first thing to come on a newly booted RPi. Could someone tell me the keystrokes to enable SSH via raspi-config please? Or if I am on the wrong track, please advise. Thanks.

EDIT: In trying to follow this advice http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/1706/4373 I am not seeing an etc directory when mounting the SD card on my iMac. If I run ls from the terminal I only get the following:

bootcode.bin            fixup.dat               kernel.img            start.elf
cmdline.txt             fixup_cd.dat            kernel_cutdown.img      start_cd.elf
config.txt              issue.txt               kernel_emergency.img

Have I screwed up the imaging of the SD card?

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Is plugging in a screen temporarily not an option? – Adam Houldsworth Jan 11 at 11:25
Hi Adam, I don't have a cable for that. – Lemmy Jan 11 at 11:30
I don't have my RPi at my current location, but as I recall, first time you boot Raspian Wheezy it shows a setup dialog (sudo raspi-config) where you can enable SSH. To see that, maybe you could follow the steps shown in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=nXvODj6YpAE ? I know it is a bit primitive approach, but I thought I would mention it :) – Lasse Christiansen - sw_lasse Jan 11 at 11:52

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ssh is installed but not started by default on runlevel 2, the default for raspbian.
Rename /etc/rc2.d/ssh/K??ssh to /etc/rc2.d/ssh/S02ssh

EDIT
The sd card comes with 2 partitions. The 1st is vfat; the 2nd is ext3. You need some utility to access it from macosx.

1st google result for ext2 macosx:
http://blog.applegrew.com/2011/12/access-ext3ext2-file-system-on-mac-osx-lion-10-7/

Also check /var/log/auth.log

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Thanks, with the help of that link I can now see the partition. I don't have an ssh folder in rc2.d though. I have an S02ssh file (looks like a link) in the root of rc2.d. – Lemmy Jan 11 at 13:17
OK, the S02ssh file is a link to init.d/ssh, so I presume SSH is already enabled? – Lemmy Jan 11 at 13:20
K means kill; S means start. the init.d files are sourced with "stop" or "start" as argument depending on the name of the file.On my image from december 16 IIRC it was K. – M Noit Jan 11 at 13:46
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OK, I'm in now - I was trying to connect to the wrong ip address. The RPi wasn't showing up from the Mac terminal but I could see it from my router config. page. So I will mark this answer as correct as it helped point me to the solution and will be useful to other mac users looking at their SD cards. As a side issue it would seem that the current distribution has SSH enabled by default. – Lemmy Jan 11 at 14:39
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You have multiple partition on your SD card, and the files you are seeing from your Mac are those from the partition which is mounted as /boot/ on the Raspberry.

You should have another partition on the SD card that would store the root (aka /) partition, with all /etc/... stuff in it. Be sure to enable EXT3 filesystem support on your Mac to get this one available on Mac OS X.

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Else I've just put this file on my boot partition and SSH started automatically. Link to boot_enable_ssh.rc

In fact, I've just found a Debian modification for the RPi on the net that had SSH enabled by default. I checked the boot partition and found this file!

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From my yesterday experience: 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img (suggested as "official distribution") has SSH enabled by default. Get it from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

You don't have to edit anything on card or start raspi-config in "blind mode".

Just make sure you use a correct IP address. Use your router DHCP web-interface to get IP from the table; use cable, not WiFi; make sure that SD card is OK (you may try another SD-card); make sure that SD card filesystem is OK (try to write image again and don't forget to "eject" card properly).

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