Step-by-step Ubuntu SD Card Setup -- for Windows Users

This tutorial is for Windows users. See Step-by-step Ubuntu SD Card Setup for Linux/Mac version.

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 (odroidu2_xxxxyyzz-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz) from: http://odroid.us/odroid/odroidu2/ubuntu/
2. (optional) Check md5sum of the downloaded .xz archive
   1. Note the MD5 sum of the image on server in the .md5sum file: odroidu2_xxxxyyzz-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz.md5sum
   2. Calculate your md5sum for downloaded file
      

       md5sums odroidu2_xxxxyyzz-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.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 odroidu2_xxxxyyzz-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.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!
   
   
6. Use the Win32 Disk Imager GUI to select the SD-Card image file (.img) and write it.
   
   
7. All done - Plug the SD-Card into Odroid and boot!