How to prepare SD Card with Debian 9.2 for VisionSOM-6ULL on Linux

How to prepare SD card with Debian 9.2 for VisionSOM-6ULL on Linux

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Prerequisites

• PC with Linux 16.04 (other versions and distributions may require some additional operations) and SD card reader (optionally you may need micro-SD to full-size SD card adapter for your computer SD reader)
• Micro-SD card, 4GB or bigger
• Debian image available here

Downloading and writing image to SD card

First of all you need to download Debian image. To do that enter the command below on your PC console:

wget http://ftp.somlabs.com/debian-stretch-visionsom-6ull.img.xz

Extract Debian image:

unxz debian-stretch-visionsom-6ull.img.xz

It is a good practise to verify image hash, you can find it on download page, to calculate SHA256 enter:

sha256sum debian-stretch-visionsom-6ull.img
940adddd46605e1427a1800dcdd8b21b0cfd8ae188dbb7f0f8eea8d52b7f387f debian-stretch-visionsom-6ull.img

Now it is time to connect your SD card to the PC, while it is connected enter:

sudo parted -l
Model: ATA SAMSUNG HM500JJ (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End    Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  480GB  480GB   primary   ext4            boot
 2      480GB   500GB  20.1GB  extended
 5      480GB   500GB  20.1GB  logical   linux-swap(v1)


Model: Generic- Multi-Card (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 7745MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      8389kB  4048MB  4039MB  primary  ext4

You can see that SD card is identified as /dev/sdc, now you can write the Debian image to your SD card. IMPORTANT! Double check if you properly identified you SD card in Linux file system, if you write the image to other device your data will be lost! Also double check dd command parameters!

NOTE! Replace /dev/sdX with your device name if following command.

sudo dd if=debian-stretch-visionsom-6ull.img of=/dev/sdX bs=64k

When dd command finishes then your SD card is ready, insert it into VisionSOM-6ULL socket and power the system. Now you can proceed to SSH/UART connnection guide.