Preparing the SD Card

While I'm waiting to get the parts, I'm going to prepare an SD card for installing Ubuntu Linux on the BeagleBoard. I'm following the BeagleNetbookInstall instructions found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Beagle

Step 1

wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/lucid/release/ubuntu-10.04-netbook-armel+omap.img

Note the image is 525M

Step 2
I'm doing this from OS X:

• Insert 2G sdcard
• diskutil unmount disk1s1
• dd if=~/ubuntu-10.04-netbook-armel+omap.img of=/dev/disk1

It's that easy! Now we have an sdcard ready to use for booting.