Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
The first thing that we need to do is launch a terminal. A terminal is available in all
the different Linux environments. In the case of Ubuntu, it is called
Terminal
. The
following screenshot shows you how to find the terminal application in the latest
version of Ubuntu:
Now that you have launched the terminal, you need to gain root permissions
as follows:
1.
The easiest way to do this is to run the following command:
sudo -i
2.
sudo
gives administration permissions to any program that you run in
the terminal. This is necessary as writing the image to your SD card is
an operation that can affect all the users.
sudo
is discussed further later
in this topic. You will see a terminal similar to what is shown in the
following screenshot:
