Getting a Workshop SD Image

Getting a copy of the workshop SD card
You can download a copy of the SD card used in the workshop here. You see several files listed here. You want to download ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2 and ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2.md5. The first is some 1.4G, so it will take a while. The second is a check sum file for the first.

You also need to get a microSD card that holds at least 4G.

Once you have the two files and the card, what you do with them depends on what OS you are running.

Writing an SD card via Linux
If you are running Linux type: $ md5sum ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2 $ cat ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2.md5 The two command should show the same thing 79edebd2fb7d2d7d989dd6b1a397dd4e ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2 If your results match you have successfully downloaded the image and can move on. If they don't match, try downloading again. If that doesn't work, contact me.

Next uncompress the image. I find the easiest way is to use the GUI based routine: $ gnome-open ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2 After a few minutes you will see



Just click Extract and wait a few more minutes.

(If gnome-open doesn't work try: . This will uncompress and untar the file.)

Insert your microSD card in a reader/write and find the path to it by running System:Administration:Disk Utility. You will see



The path is in the upper right.

Then enter: $ dd if=ICASSP2011.img of=/dev/sd? bs=8M $ sync Where  is the path to your SD card. This may take 10 minutes. Mine took about 7.5.

Writing an SD card via Windows
The following instructions come from here.

To initialize your card under Windows, you can do the following:

After the image writing is done (this will take some 10 minutes), eject the SD card.
 * 1) Download and install Ubuntu's Win32DiskImager (also known as the win32-image-writer).
 * 2) Download and install 7-zip compression software.
 * 3) Decompress ICASSP2011.img.tar.bz2 image file using 7-zip.  You'll have to run 7-zip twice, once to uncompress and a second time to extract the .img from the .tar file.
 * 4) Insert the SD card writer/reader into the Windows machine.
 * 5) Insert >=4GB SD card into the reader/writer.
 * 6) Start the Win32DiskImager.
 * 7) Select ICASSP2011.img and correct SD card location.
 * 8) Click on Write.

Boot your Beagle
You should now have a functioning SD card image. Plug it into your BeagleBoard and boot it up.

The root password is test.