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| − | I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a gumstix overo using a collection of instructions found online. A summary of the instructions is below for convenience. This is my first attempt and there are a few issues that I am going to try to resolve.
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| − | I used an ubuntu 10.04 desktop machine as my working environment for these instructions.
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| − | 1. Install rootstock: ‘sudo apt-get install rootstock qemu’
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| − | Rootstock is a utility used to make a rootFS for a port
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| − | Qemu is needed, for some reason qemu was not installed automatically for me
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| − | 2. make rootfs using rootstock. This may take several hours
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| − | I used the following command but doing ‘man rootstock’ will give you a list of advanced commands
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| − | I set my distribution with -d to lucid because I wanted ubuntu 10.04
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| − | the openssh-server will allow you to connect your gumstix to the internet and ssh in
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| − | ‘sudo rootstock -f “Gumstix” -l “gumstix” -p “overo” -n “Gumstix Overo
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| − | Ubuntu” -s lxde,gdm,openssh-server,x11vnc -t “America/Vancouver” --serial ttyS2 -d lucid --locale en_US.UTF-8′
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| − | Note 1: the user gumstix and password overo do not work because the user does not get created properly. More on how to deal with that later
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| − | Note 2: the lxde,gdm is good for a minimal install for use on a small device with limited power and storage space. Good for a headless system.
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| − | Link for more info on making a rootfs
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| − | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch
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| − | 3. Get MLO and u-boot from this link
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| − | http://www.sakoman.com/feeds/omap3/glibc/images/overo/201009091145/
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| − | 4. Get your kernel u-image This kernel is based on the 2.6.34 kernel. Newer and older kernels should work but you will have to find modules for that kernel. (see step 8 )
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| − | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/211887/Ubuntu/uImage-2.6.34-r88-overo.bin
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| − | 5. Format your microSD card as per usual
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| − | http://www.gumstix.net/Documentation/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Creating-a-bootable-microSD-card/109.html
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| − | 6. put MLO, u-boot, u-image on microSD card boot partition
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| − | 7. extract generated rootfs to second partition
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| − | 8. Download and extract modules and copy them to second partition (where you extracted the rootfs)
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| − | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/211887/Ubuntu/modules-2.6.34-r88-overo.tgz
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| − | 9. On the second partition open the /etc/shadow file. ‘sudo gedit /path/to/second/partition/etc/shadow’
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| − | Delete the ‘*’ for the root entry. This will allow you to login as root and create a user.
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| − | Note: remember to put the ‘*’ back after you have created a user so someone can’t login as root and screw up your system
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| − | 10. open the ‘/etc/network/interfaces’ file. ‘sudo gedit /path/to/second/partition/etc/network/interfaces’
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| − | add the following code to the bottom
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| − | auto eth0
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| − | iface eth0 inet dhcp
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| − | You can now unmount the microSD card, place it in the gumstix and boot to it.
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| − | Login using serial console using the gumstix instructions in the link below or you can plug an ethernet cable in and ssh in
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| − | http://www.gumstix.net/Documentation/view/Overo-Setup-and-Programming/Getting-started/109.html
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| − | 11. login as root and then create a user for yourself and give yourself sudo
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| − | sudo adduser youruser
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| − | sudo adduser youruser sudo
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| − | sudo apt-get install nano
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| − | nano /etc/shadow
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| − | add the ‘*’ back in that we removed earlier
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| − | log out as root
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| − | 12. log in as your user
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| − | open the /etc/apt/sources.list file
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| − | add the following lines if they are not present
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| − | deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports lucid-updates main
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| − | deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports lucid-security main
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| − | then close the file
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| − | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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| − | 13. Have fun
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