DuinOS Installation – Linux
This document provides information showing how to install DuinOS using a Linux based PC. For more information about DuinOS and its usage, refer to here.
Requirements
Step 1
Download the latest DuinOS and unzip to the /tmp folder on your PC. The unzipped DuinOS.img file should be about 1 GB.
Step 2
In step 2, we will go over the process to copy DuinOS onto the MicroSD flash storage where the MicroSD flash is configure with bootable partition.
Insert a blank MicroSD flash storage card to the USB-to-MicroSD adapter and insert the adapter to your PC.
Wait for the MicroSD flash storage is detected and recognized.
Then, launch a terminal window.
From the terminal window, execute the following command to view all available partitions:
sudo fdisk -l
After the “sudo fdisk –l” command is executed, all available partitions are listed as shown in the screen below:
From the above screen, it shows the MicroSD storage card we use is “/dev/sdb”.
Make note of the assigned partition name for the MicroSD flash storage. (In this example, the SD card has one partition, sdb1)
Next, execute the following command with the partition from the previous step:
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
If the SD card has multiple partitions, repeat the previous step to unmount each partition until all are unmounted. Then, you can see the SD storage device is removed from the desktop
Next, from the terminal window, execute the following command to load DuinOS onto the MicroSD card:
dd of={MicroSD device ID} if={DuinOS image file name} bs=1M
For the example in this application note, the command is as follow:
dd of=/dev/sdb if=/tmp/DuinOS.img bs=1M
Please be patient, depending on the storage card’s Read/write speed, it takes approximately 6 ~ 7 minutes to load DuinOS onto the MicroSD.
After the process to load DuinOS onto the MicroSD card is completed, remove the MicroSD card from the adapter.
Step 3
Insert the MicroSD card from the previous step into the MicroSD slot on the 86Duino board and apply power.
During power-on, the 86Duino board first check whether the inserted MicroSD card is bootable and will boot from the MicroSD card. When a bootable MicroSD card is not detected, the board will boot from the onboard flash.
For more information about DuinOS usage, refer to the here.
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