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
You are going to need:
Software Tools
Step-by-Step
Is it possible to write a non-blank media with Win32 disk imager? I had to attempt to format the SD-Card before I could write the image. Windows complained that it could not format the SD-Card, but then Win32 Disk Imager was able to write it.
Download the compressed 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.
md5sums odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz
Expand the image
7z -z odroidu2_20130104-linaro-ubuntu-desktop-uSDeMMC.img.xz
Now we have the expanded SD-Card image file, (.img)
Connect your SD-Card reader with an SD-Card installed to your PC.
Warning: Make double sure you know which device designator represents the SD-Card -- no joke, Win32 Disk Imager is completely unforgiving. It will happily wipe a hard drive if you tell it to.
Use the Win32 Disk Imager GUI to select the SD-Card image file (.img) and write it.