There are two methods to install linaro builds:
- using pre-built image
- creating your own image with linaro image tools
Using pre-built image
Insert SD card and note the assigned ‘/dev/sdX’ or ‘/dev/mmcblk0’
dmesg
Download the image and flash the SD card
SDCARD=/dev/sdX # sdcard found from dmesg above
URL=http://releases.linaro.org/13.01/ubuntu/arndale/arndale-quantal_server_20130130-64.img.gz
curl $URL | gunzip | sudo dd bs=64k of=$SDCARD
Note: Windows users may use the Image Writer for Windows.
Creating your own image
Get artifacts
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.01/ubuntu/arndale/hwpack_linaro-arndale_20130130-64_armhf_supported.tar.gz
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.01/ubuntu/arndale/linaro-quantal-server-20130130-258.tar.gz
Get linaro image tools
- method 1: using binary package for Ubuntu (PPA)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linaro-image-tools
- method 2: using source code
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.01/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2013.01.tar.gz
Insert SD card and note the assigned ‘/dev/sdX’ or ‘/dev/mmcblk0’
dmesg
Create media
sudo linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev arndale --hwpack hwpack_linaro-arndale_20130130-64_armhf_supported.tar.gz --binary linaro-quantal-server-20130130-258.tar.gz
Links
For more information on how to use this builds please see the Linaro wiki here.
