Hardware Reference
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e. Choose your microSD card from the pane on the left. Make absolutely
sure you've selected the right disk. If you're unsure, simply remove
and insert the card to see which gets added to the list.
f. In the pane on the right, click the Erase tab.
g. In the Format drop-down menu, choose MS-DOS (FAT).
h. Name it anything you want.
i. Click Erase. This will totally format the card, so you'll lose all the data
that may be on it.
j. Find the files you expanded from the Intel image file.
k. Copy all the files together to the root of your newly formatted card.
When you open a window to browse the files on your card, you should
have a
boot
folder and three other files.
3. If you're running
Windows
:
a. Download and install 7-Zip from
http://www.7-zip.org/
.
b. Right-click the
.7z
file downloaded in step 1 and click 7-Zip
→
Extract
Here.
c. Navigate into the newly created folder, which will be called
LINUX_IM
AGE_FOR_SD_Intel_Galileo_v0.7.5
(or similar).
d. Select all the files, right-click and click Copy.
e. Insert the microSD card into your computer.
f. Windows will ask what you'd like to do. Select “Open folder to view
files.”
g. If there are any files already on the card, delete them.
h. Right-click in the drive window and click Paste to copy the files from
the folder you extracted. When you browse the files on your card, you
should have a
boot
folder and three other files.
4. If you're running
Linux
:
a. If you don't have it already, install p7zip with the command
sudo apt-
get install p7zip
.
b. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the
.7z
file.
c. Execute
7zr x LINUX_IMAGE_FOR_SD_Intel_Galileo_v0.7.5
to extract
the file into a folder called
LINUX_IMAGE_FOR_SD_Intel_Gali
leo_v0.7.5
.
d. Execute
df -h
and note what drives are available to you.
e. Insert your MicroSD card.
f. Execute
df -h
to see which card has been added and where it's
mounted. (It will likely be something like
/media/UNTITLED
).
