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Monday, November 7, 2011

Bootstrap


Here are the instructions to download an image of Ubuntu Maverick and installing it on SD/MMC card. You may choose any Ubuntu flavor as you wish. We have chosen Maverick 10.10 here. Download any other flavor of Ubuntu from here: http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/maverick/.

STEP 1: Download and extract Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/maverick/ubuntu-10.10-r7-minimal-armel.tar.xz
 
tar xjf ubuntu-10.10-r7-minimal-armel.tar.xz
cd ubuntu-10.10-r7-minimal-armel

STEP 2: Look for the MMC/SD card
sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --probe-mmc

This would result in something like this-
Are you sure? I Don't see [/dev/idontknow], here is what I do see...
 
fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes <-x86 Root Drive
Disk /dev/sdb: 7957 MB, 7957325824 bytes    <-MMC/SD card
 
mount:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0) <-x86 Root Partition
 Here you can see that /dev/sdb matches your MMC card specification.

STEP 3: Partition the MMC/SD card and install the Ubuntu image
sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdb --uboot beagle

Version
--uboot option
BeagleBoard Bx
--uboot beagle_bx
BeagleBoard Cx, xM, A/B/C
--uboot beagle
Panda Board
--uboot panda

STEP 4: Insert the MMC/SD card in SD card slot at BeagleBoard, connect the monitor and boot it. Use these login details:
Username: ubuntu 
Password: temppwd

STEP 5: Connect to Internet and install GUI and other necessary packages
sudo dhclient eth0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install xfce4 gdm xubuntu-gdm-theme xubuntu-artwork 
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-omap3 network-manager
We also used ‘sudo apt-get upgrade’ in this step 5. It took several hours and resulted into non graphical interface. Therefore, there is no need to do that here. 

STEP 6: Restart the BeagleBoard.


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Monday, November 7, 2011

Bootstrap


Here are the instructions to download an image of Ubuntu Maverick and installing it on SD/MMC card. You may choose any Ubuntu flavor as you wish. We have chosen Maverick 10.10 here. Download any other flavor of Ubuntu from here: http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/maverick/.

STEP 1: Download and extract Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/maverick/ubuntu-10.10-r7-minimal-armel.tar.xz
 
tar xjf ubuntu-10.10-r7-minimal-armel.tar.xz
cd ubuntu-10.10-r7-minimal-armel

STEP 2: Look for the MMC/SD card
sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --probe-mmc

This would result in something like this-
Are you sure? I Don't see [/dev/idontknow], here is what I do see...
 
fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes <-x86 Root Drive
Disk /dev/sdb: 7957 MB, 7957325824 bytes    <-MMC/SD card
 
mount:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0) <-x86 Root Partition
 Here you can see that /dev/sdb matches your MMC card specification.

STEP 3: Partition the MMC/SD card and install the Ubuntu image
sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdb --uboot beagle

Version
--uboot option
BeagleBoard Bx
--uboot beagle_bx
BeagleBoard Cx, xM, A/B/C
--uboot beagle
Panda Board
--uboot panda

STEP 4: Insert the MMC/SD card in SD card slot at BeagleBoard, connect the monitor and boot it. Use these login details:
Username: ubuntu 
Password: temppwd

STEP 5: Connect to Internet and install GUI and other necessary packages
sudo dhclient eth0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install xfce4 gdm xubuntu-gdm-theme xubuntu-artwork 
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-omap3 network-manager
We also used ‘sudo apt-get upgrade’ in this step 5. It took several hours and resulted into non graphical interface. Therefore, there is no need to do that here. 

STEP 6: Restart the BeagleBoard.


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