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These instructions assume you have an SD card with one partition.  Most SD cards ship this way by default, but if you have modified the partitions you may need to use a utility such as gparted or fdisk to remove partitions and recreate it with one partition.
These instructions describe how to create a bootable SD card image. They assume you have an SD card with one partition.  Most SD cards ship this way by default, but if you have modified the partitions, you may need to use a utility such as <code>gparted</code> or <code>fdisk</code> to recreate the table with one partition.


Plug the SD card into a USB reader and connect it to your Linux PC. 
These instructions assume your SD interface is <code>/dev/sdc</code>, but plug the SD card into your USB reader and check <code>dmesg</code> to confirm.
These instructions assume your SD interface is /dev/sdc, but check dmesg in your PC to see what
On the TS-7180, its on-board SD card reader is <code>/dev/mmcblk1p1</code>.


Running these commands will reflash the SD card to our default latest image.
Running these commands will reflash the SD card to our default latest image.
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sudo umount /dev/sdc1
sudo umount /dev/sdc1


sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
sudo mkfs.ext4 -O ^metadata_csum,^64bit /dev/sdc1
sudo mkdir /mnt/sd
sudo mkdir /mnt/sd
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd/
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd/
wget ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-socket-macrocontrollers/ts-7180-linux/distributions/debian/debian-armhf-jessie-latest.tar.bz2
wget https://ftp.embeddedTS.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7180-linux/distributions/debian/ts7180-debian-buster-latest.tar.xz
 
xzcat ts7180-debian-buster-latest.tar.xz | sudo tar -xhf -C /mnt/sd
sudo tar -xjf debian-armhf-jessie-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/sd
sudo umount /mnt/sd
sudo umount /mnt/sd
sync
sync
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mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd
cd /mnt/sd/
cd /mnt/sd/
sudo md5sums -c md5sums.txt
sudo md5sum -c md5sums.txt
umount /mnt/sd
umount /mnt/sd
sync
sync
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The md5sums command will report what differences there are, if any, and return if it passed or failed.
The <code>md5sums</code> command will report what differences there are, if any, and return if it passed or failed.

Latest revision as of 13:41, 26 April 2024

These instructions describe how to create a bootable SD card image. They assume you have an SD card with one partition. Most SD cards ship this way by default, but if you have modified the partitions, you may need to use a utility such as gparted or fdisk to recreate the table with one partition.

These instructions assume your SD interface is /dev/sdc, but plug the SD card into your USB reader and check dmesg to confirm. On the TS-7180, its on-board SD card reader is /dev/mmcblk1p1.

Running these commands will reflash the SD card to our default latest image.

# Verify nothing else has this mounted
sudo umount /dev/sdc1

sudo mkfs.ext4 -O ^metadata_csum,^64bit /dev/sdc1
sudo mkdir /mnt/sd
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd/
wget https://ftp.embeddedTS.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7180-linux/distributions/debian/ts7180-debian-buster-latest.tar.xz
xzcat ts7180-debian-buster-latest.tar.xz | sudo tar -xhf -C /mnt/sd
sudo umount /mnt/sd
sync

After it is written you can verify the data was written correctly. Reinsert the disk to verify any block cache is gone, then run these:

mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd
cd /mnt/sd/
sudo md5sum -c md5sums.txt
umount /mnt/sd
sync

The md5sums command will report what differences there are, if any, and return if it passed or failed.