Getting Latest SD Card Image

How to get the latest Atlas SD card image

Prerequisites

The following items will be needed in order to successfully get started with Linux on the Altera SoC Development board:

• Host computer running Linux or Windows
• External USB micro SD card reader (or host computer with built-in micro SD card reader). Alternatively a micro SD to SD card adapter can be used if the host PC or the reader has a SD slot but no micro SD slot.
• 4GB (or larger) micro SD or micro SDHC card.
• If using a Linux host computer to write the SD card go to Step 2 above
• if using a Windows host computer to write the SD card go to Step 3 above

Available Images

• v1.1: http://download.terasic.com/downloads/cd-rom/de0-nano-soc/atlas/atlas_sdcard.zip
  • Added the Gator daemon and driver to support the ARM DS-5 Streamline performance analyzer
  • Updated the README files and scripts in the example "sandbox" folders
  • Fixed incorrect web links to Atlas-SoC User Guide
• v1.0 RC7: https://releases.rocketboards.org/2015.08/atlas/atlas_sdcard_v1.0rc7.img.tgz
  • Initial public release

Linux Procedure

1. Download the desired version of the Atlas SD Card image

2. Extract the compressed Linux SD card image from archive

$ tar xzf <image_archive_name>.tgz

3. Determine the device associated with the SD card on the host by running the following command before and after inserting the card in the reader:

$ cat /proc/partitions 

Let's assume it is /dev/sdx.

4. Use dd utility to write the SD image to the SD card:

$ sudo dd if=<image_name>.img of=/dev/sdx bs=1M

Note we are using sudo to be able to write to the card.

5. Use sync utility to flush the changes to the SD card:

$ sudo sync

Windows Procedure

1. Download the latest available version of the Atlas SD Card image.

2. Extract the compressed Linux SD card image from archive using either WinZip or the free tool 7zip from http://www.7-zip.org.

3. Insert SD card into SD card writer, and connect writer to the PC

4. Write the image to the SD card using the free Win32 Disk Imager tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/