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This website is meant to act as a mirror for odroid-related files. It is in no way associated with Hardkernel.
This site is hosted on www.1and1.com. The account has unlimited traffic and unlimited space.
The Hardkernel website is here: Hardkernel Website
This wiki is completely open. You can add an account if you like, but there is no requirement to do so.
Personal
My username on the Hardkernel forum is osterluk. It is the same as on this wiki. My main interest is embedded systems, Debian in particular. I have odroid-x and odroid-u2 development boards.
I'm a complete noob at Wiki stuff.
Download Area
Follow this link to browse for files I've copied from Hardkernel or others and posted: odroid
Odroid-U2
Step-by-step Ubuntu SD-Card setup
These instructions are for a Linux user
You will need an 8GB micro SD card and a card reader/writer.
Warning: do not use these instructions verbatim. You need to adjust them for your drive layout -- you could wipe your hard drive if you are not careful enough.
Plug in the SD card and then make sure it is not mounted
# Make double sure you know the drive designator used for the SD card. One way to do it is like this: dmesg | tail -n 10 [3741938.562849] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [3741938.562852] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through # Now we know sdc represents the new SD card, so umount it. sudo umount /dev/sdc1 # There may be more than one partition to umount, so check then mounts: mount | grep sdc # In this case there are no more instances of /dev/sdc*, so we are done with this step
Expand the SD card image
# check the md5sum against the expected one. The md5sum value is usually posted separately. # It could be in a forum, on a website or contained in a separate file. The cd12a526ecdb34c12b4a737044e867e7 # value is the checksum that verifies the file transferred correctly. md5sum odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz # cd12a526ecdb34c12b4a737044e867e7 odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz # extract the xz file xz -d odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz # check the results ls # odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img is the extracted file.
Write the image file to the SD card
# Use disk duplicate to write the image to the SD card. # Make sure you know the drive designator and check for typos. This step can humble # even an experienced person. I speak from experience... # note that the drive designator does not have a number -- we are writing the whole device contents # and it contains more just two partitions. It has the bootloader, u-boot binary, u-boot environment # and some proprietary code required to boot the Exynos processor sudo dd if=odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img of=/dev/sdc bs=4M # This takes at least a few minutes. This image took about six minutes to write using my hardware. # Make sure all the data is flushed sync
Now you can removed the SD card, insert it into the odroid-u2 and boot it. Just plug in the power supply
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