Debian Wheezy SD Card prepare (Windows)

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This tutorial is for Windows users.

Prerequisites & Tools

  • SD-Card & SD-Card reader/writer
  • 7-Zip to extract the SD-Card image from downloaded .xz file
  • Win32 Disk Imager to write the .img file to your SD-Card.
  • (optional) md5sums program can calculate checksums: MD5Sums Project
  • (optional) SD card format utility SDFormatter

Step-by-Step

  1. Download a compressed SD image (e.g. debian-wheezy-base-X.Y.img.xz) from: http://odroid.us/odroid/odroidu2/debian/
  2. (optional) Check md5sum of the downloaded .xz archive
    1. Note the MD5 sum of the image on server in the .md5sum file: debian-wheezy-base-X.Y.img.xz.md5sum
    2. Calculate your md5sum for downloaded file
       md5sums debian-wheezy-base-6.1.img.xz
    3. Verify if the MD5 checksums match - if not, your downloaded file is corrupted, download again!
  3. Extract the .img file from .xz archive using 7-Zip
    7z -z debian-wheezy-base-6.1.img.xz
  4. Plug your SD-Card to your SD reader/writer.
  5. Format the SD-Card using default Windows format utility or SDFormatter
    Warning: Make double sure you know which device represents the SD-Card. Formatting an incorrect drive will erase all data!
    Formating.png
  6. Use the Win32 Disk Imager GUI to select the SD-Card image file (.img) and write it.
    Write image.png
  7. All done - Plug the SD-Card into Odroid and power up!