ARM Wiki sd-install update

[Carla Sella]

On 08/27/2012 05:44 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> On 08/27/2012 11:29 AM, Elfy wrote:
>> On 27/08/12 16:16, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>> 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
>> Whoops - there's a blank one flying about too ...
>>
>> Anyway - this is fdisk/umount/dd and then fdisk again
>>
>>     sudo fdisk -l
>>     [sudo] password for hob:
>>
>>     ...
>>
>>     Disk /dev/sdd: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes
>>     245 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 15523840 sectors
>>     Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>>     Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>     I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>     Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>>
>>        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>     hob at sidh:~$ sudo umount /dev/sdc
>>     umount: /dev/sdc: not mounted
>>     hob at sidh:~$ cd Desktop/
>>     hob at sidh:~/Desktop$ sudo dd bs=4M
>>     if=quantal-desktop-armhf+omap4.img of=/dev/sdd ; sudo sync
>>     5+1 records in
>>     5+1 records out
>>     22740992 bytes (23 MB) copied, 1.93299 s, 11.8 MB/s
>>     hob at sidh:~/Desktop$ sudo fdisk -l
>>
>>     ...
>>
>>     Disk /dev/sdd: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes
>>     245 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 15523840 sectors
>>     Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>>     Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>     I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>     Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>>
>>        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>     hob at sidh:~/Desktop$
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> You umounted /dev/sdc :-) You have to unmount a parition anyways, so
> it would be something like /dev/sdd1, etc. Try putting a partition on
> /dev/sdd , making sure you can mount it, and then issuing the dd
> command. Obviously it will be wiped by dd, but let's  confirm the disk
> is working.
>
>
> Nicholas
>
>


Hello,
I tried too to download today's image, but strangely it's only 22MB big,
normally it was 660MB.
I tried to copy it to my SD card as I have always done, but when you
then launch gparted you get no partitions on it.
I checked the md5sum and it's ok, but 22M can't be right, could there be
something wrong with the image loaded on the iso tracker ?
Carla

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Carla Sella
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