Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on Gumstix Overo - Revision history

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‎Serial terminal may appear to hang

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‎Serial terminal may appear to hang

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‎Serial Terminal

24.118.111.100 at 03:12, 12 May 2009

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2009-05-12T03:08:32Z

Sax1johno: Moved the build environment notes to here, and removed the previous article.

2009-04-11T18:01:49Z

Moved the build environment notes to here, and removed the previous article.

New page

For some installation instructions for Ubuntu on the Gumstix Overo, [http://johnwoconnor.blogspot.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-gumstix-overo.html click here]. It's a mashup of some other tutorials that results in a working installation of Ubuntu 9.04.

Also, the [http://johnwoconnor.blogspot.com/2009/04/ubuntu-904-on-gumstick.html previous post] has some images. Video to come.

John O'Connor <john.oconnor@myokapi.net>

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-# echo "ttyS2" > etc/securetty
+# echo "ttyS2" >> etc/securetty
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-# cat > /path/to/rootfs/etc/event.d/ttyS2 <<EOF
+# cd /path/to/rootfs
 start on runlevel 2
 start on runlevel 3
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-# echo "ttyS2" > /path/to/rootfs/etc/securetty
+# echo "ttyS2" > etc/securetty
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 ==Tips==
-===Serial Terminal===
+===Serial terminal may appear to hang===
 If you're interfacing with your Overo with the USB serial terminal, keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.

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 If you're interfacing with your Overo with the USB serial terminal, keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.
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 You will also need to add ttyS2 to /etc/securetty to allow root logins there:
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 ==Tips==
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 ===Serial Terminal===
-Keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu 9.04 unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.
+If you're interfacing with your Overo with the USB serial terminal, keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.

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 For some installation instructions for Ubuntu on the Gumstix Overo, [http://johnwoconnor.blogspot.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-gumstix-overo.html click here].  It's a mashup of some other tutorials that results in a working installation of Ubuntu 9.04.
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