ARM Wiki sd-install update

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 08/27/2012 10:01 AM, Elfy wrote:
> On 20/08/12 23:46, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>
>> For those of you braving ARM installations, I tried an sd-based 
>> installation this week and updated the instructions on the wiki page. 
>> Elfy, Carla, et la, I can confirm your findings of this bug(s):
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1036742
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1036988
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/313452
>>
>> and the workaround. It's documented for now on the page:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/QA/Pandaboard
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Nicholas
>>
>>
> Got today's .img
>
> Tried following the wiki to the letter.
>
> I am almost positive I am doing something wrong here :)
>
> I do *sudo umount /dev/sdd
>
> *I do *sudo dd bs=4M if=quantal-desktop-armhf+omap4.img of=/dev/sdd ; 
> sudo sync
>
> *It looks like it's doing something - terminal tells me it's done 
> something.
>
> If I try to just boot the image on the card without worrying about 
> installing it - left hand board led lights up only.
>
>
> File manager tells me there is exactly nothing on the card.
>
> Gparted tells me that there now no partitions on the card.
>
> Now - what I am not sure of is whether I have other bugs on this 12.10 
> system I run causing all this lol
>
>
Elfy, what's 'sudo fdisk l' show.? /dev/sdd is your usb disk right? :-) 
And yes, after your run the dd command, the usb disk should have 
partitions on it and files..one is a boot partititon, athe other 
contains the installer and files.

Nicholas
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