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I've just bought the Raspberry Pi and I want to follow the NOOB tutorial in order to get the base operating system working.

I don't have any keyboard or mouse, so I have to buy them.

My idea is to buy a non-wired keyboard and mouse, but I'm not sure if this will work.

For the information I've read, first I need to buy a wired keyboard and after I can set up a non-wired keyboard. Is this correct?

Is it possible to install and configure a Raspberry Pi without a wired keyboard or mouse?

Dr. No
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Is it possible to install and configure a Raspberry Pi without a wired keyboard or mouse?

It should be. I've used a wireless keyboard/mouse combo with a USB dongle; that works out of the box with the linux kernel as configured on raspbian (and almost certainly other available systems too). Just don't get anything too wierd that requires special drivers or something (a normal standard wireless keyboard and/or mouse does not).

Note that once you've created the SD card, the configuration is pretty simple and you can run it or update the things it effects fairly easily.

For the information I've read, first I need to buy a wired keyboard and after I can set up a non-wired keyboard. Is this correct?

I'm gonna say no, you don't need a wired keyboard first.

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It is possible to configure it without a keyboard and mouse connected to the raspberry. You will however at least need another computer then to access it through SSH. Over the SSH connection you can then install all programs you want and configure the raspberry as you like.