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> <>|| = Quantal Quetzal (12.10) Installation Instructions = == OMAP4 == With the Ubuntu 12.10, ARM desktop images are now standard Ubuntu live images as known from other architectures. To install these images you should have a USB disk as target device. * dd omap4 image on to sd-card * plugin sd-card & usb-stick * boot & install on to usb-stick == OMAP3 == * Follow more or less 12.04 instructions, but use the 12.10 pre-installed images. = Precise Pangolin (12.04) Installation Instructions = To use preinstalled OMAP3/4 Precise (12.04) images, apply the following steps: == Downloading == Download the compressed image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/ * For omap3 platforms, use ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+omap.img.gz * For omap4 based systems, use ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+omap4.img.gz /!\ Warning /!\ Check the md5sum to verify the image <> == Booting the image == On Pandaboard and BeagleXM just switch on the board with the SD card inserted. === On older Beagleboards === Insert SD card with new image into the beagleboard and reset while holding User1 button on system /!\ On omap3 systems with a modified NAND (i.e. beaglebord C series) do the following: On a serial console connected to the system, halt any autoboot script and type {{{ setenv bootcmd 'mmc rescan;fatload mmc 0 0x82000000 boot.scr;source 0x82000000'; setenv autostart yes; saveenv; boot }}} The system should start booting (note that this step is only necessary if you have a NAND and the system does not default to reading boot.scr)