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Now extract the Angstrom image that you downloaded earlier by right clicking on it and clicking on the 'extract here' option. You should see the resultant image having only a ''.hddimg'' extension from the original ''.xz'' extension. | Now extract the Angstrom image that you downloaded earlier by right clicking on it and clicking on the 'extract here' option. You should see the resultant image having only a ''.hddimg'' extension from the original ''.xz'' extension. | ||
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| − | Now, identify the disk device filename for the USB flash drive. You can do this by opening the Disk Utility application in Ubuntu and clicking on the flash drive card entry. See the Device field to determine the raw device name of your flash drive. Note that this device name should specify an entire disk device (e.g, /dev/sde), and not an individual disk partition (e.g, /dev/sde1). In my case it is ''sdb". | + | Now, identify the disk device filename for the USB flash drive. You can do this by opening the Disk Utility application in Ubuntu and clicking on the flash drive card entry. See the Device field to determine the raw device name of your flash drive. Note that this device name should specify an entire disk device (e.g, /dev/sde), and not an individual disk partition (e.g, /dev/sde1). In my case it is ''sdb" . |
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Revision as of 15:53, 6 December 2013
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Summary
In most cases, you will boot Angstrom off a microSD card on the MinnowBoard. In this guide, we will see how to boot Angstrom off an external storage device such as USB flash drive, SATA, HDD etc.
Note:- For the purpose of this guide, I am using a 4GB USB flash drive. These instructions can be replicated for any similar external storage device like SATA, HDD(Hard Disk) etc. Also, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was the reference operating system for these instructions.
Procedure
Step-1:
Download the latest Angstrom HDD image from here. Please note that this hdd image is different from a sd card image.
Step-2:
Download the script that will write this image to the external storage media from here. In our case, a USB flash drive.
Step-3:
Now extract the Angstrom image that you downloaded earlier by right clicking on it and clicking on the 'extract here' option. You should see the resultant image having only a .hddimg extension from the original .xz extension.
Step-4:
Now, identify the disk device filename for the USB flash drive. You can do this by opening the Disk Utility application in Ubuntu and clicking on the flash drive card entry. See the Device field to determine the raw device name of your flash drive. Note that this device name should specify an entire disk device (e.g, /dev/sde), and not an individual disk partition (e.g, /dev/sde1). In my case it is sdb" .
Step-5:
Make the script that we downloaded earlier, executable, by typing the command below in the terminal:
chmod a+x mkefdisk.sh
