Andyoucanstartplayingaroundwiththegumstix.docVIP

THIS FILE SHOWS INFORMATION REGARDING THE OVERO FIRE (WITH A SUMMIT BOARD) MOST OF THE INFORMATION I RECEIVED FROM FORUMS AND INTERNET SITES. PLEASE BE CAREFULL WHEN JUST COPYING CODES. First steps Board the gumstix to its expansion board. Connect gumstix to the computer via a mini B USB cable connected to the console plug of the gumstix expansion board. Do NOT connect power to the gumstix just yet. I am using windows OS, and once connecting gumstix to the computer, it installs the gumstixs drivers. Once this is complete, download putty to enable a console connection with gumstix. .uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Open putty: Configure it as follows: Choose serial and find which COM port you are connected to Make sure you are set up as bellow: Press open: We get a blank screen: Now enter the power and we should see it boot and finally get to the login screen: Enter: root And you can start playing around with the gumstix Setting up a bootable sd card In order to set up a bootable sd card, make sure: You have an empty/formatted (FAT/32) sd card. You are working on a pc with ubuntu OS. Make sure no other USB devices are connected Open terminal window and enter: For this process X should be replaced with either c,b or e Sudo umount /dev/sdX1 Partitioning the card: Sudo fdisk /dev/sdX Enter the following letters: O P X H 255 S 63 C Look up when we entered the letter P, and take the device size in bytes, devide by 255, devide by 63 and devide by 512: for example 8GB sd card: 7933526016/255/63/512 = 964 rounded down Enter the number calculated above R N P 1 1 +32M for 2Gb or +50C for 8Gb depending on the internet sites bellow T C A 1 N P 2 6 for 2Gb or 52 for 8Gb depending on the internet sites bellow Same number as in 11 P W Formatting the partitions: Sudo mkfs.vfat –F 32 /dev/sdX1 –n FAT Sudo mkfs.ext3 -L LINUX /dev/sdX2 (this may take a while) Installing the Boot files: The boot files are the Images that can be found on the gumstix official site: /software-developme