2. Requirements and installation

2.1 Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3, 4 or 5 (64-bit). To use IDS/IPS, prefer a Pi 4 or 5 with 4 GB of RAM or more.
• microSD card of 8 GB or more.
• A second network port: any USB-Ethernet adapter. The onboard port is usually the LAN and the USB adapter the WAN — but you make the choice on first access.

2.2 Installing on the Raspberry Pi

1. Download the berrycade-<version>.img.xz file.
2. Write it to the card with Raspberry Pi Imager (“Use custom” option, without the customization options) or with balenaEtcher.
3. Optional: before powering on, open the card's boot partition on your computer and edit the berrycade.txt file (hostname, LAN IP, gateway and DNS).
4. Insert the card into the Pi, connect the LAN port to your network and power on the device.
5. Wait about 2 minutes: on the first boot the partition is expanded to fill the whole card.