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Installing Debian On Intel Galileo

This document provides instructions for installing Debian on an Intel Galileo Gen 2 board using a microSD card. It is a 5 step process: 1) Download the Debian .img file, 2) Download a disk writing tool, 3) Use the tool to write the image to the microSD card, 4) Insert the microSD card and boot the Galileo board, 5) Optionally connect to the board through its USB COM port using Putty to configure networking settings.

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Installing Debian On Intel Galileo

This document provides instructions for installing Debian on an Intel Galileo Gen 2 board using a microSD card. It is a 5 step process: 1) Download the Debian .img file, 2) Download a disk writing tool, 3) Use the tool to write the image to the microSD card, 4) Insert the microSD card and boot the Galileo board, 5) Optionally connect to the board through its USB COM port using Putty to configure networking settings.

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Installing Debian on Intel Galileo Gen 2

Author: Ion Dorinel FILIP

Requirements:
● Intel Galileo board (with suitable power adaptor)
● MicroSD card & suitable card-reader (or SD card reader + adaptor)
● MicroUSB cable (for connecting on it via COM port)

Step 1 - Download Intel Galileo .img file


Go to ​https://sourceforge.net/projects/galileodebian/files/SD%20card%20Image/​ and
download the latest image (in our case, Galileo-1.2.img.gz)

Step 2 - Download NetBSD Disk Image Tool (aka. Rawrite32)


Download Rawrite32 and extract (to a folder of your choice) Rawrite32
https://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/download.html

Step 3 - Load Debian for Galileo on the SD card using a card-reader


Insert the MicroSD card on card-reader and use Rawrite32 to load the image on it.
This operation will overwrite everything on the target device.
!!! Pay attention and select the MicroSD card. !!!
As you can see in the figure above, it offers me to option to overwrite my secondary HDD.

Step 4 - Boot-up
Place the microSD card back to board’s slot and restart it (by power-cycle or pressing the
reboot button). Now it is running a Debian distribution of Linux.

The default credentials are ​root ​with password ​root.

Step 5 - Connect to shell via USB COM port (optional)

Step 5.1 - Connect Micro-USB, check drivers and find COM port number
By default, the board asks for network configuration through DHCP. If you don’t know it’s IP
address you can easily get it by connecting to the shell using the micro-USB connection.

First, connect the micro-USB cable from Galileo to your computer. If the board successfully
boot-up a COM port will be visible on your laptop. In Windows, you can find the identification
number using the Device manager, as shown in the figure below:
If the device shows up as a unknown device, you should download the drivers for Intel
Galileo and install them on your PC using the wizard that appears if you select Update Driver
from the contextual menu for the unknown device.

The URL for driver download is:


https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26417/Intel-Galileo-Firmware-Updater-and-Driver
s?product=78919

Step 5.2 - Connect to the COM port using putty and login to shell
Open Putty and choose Serial as connection type and connect to the COM port with the
number that you found at the previous step.
Use ​root ​- ​root ​credentials to get shell access to the board.

Now you can use the ifconfig command to find out the IP address of the board. :)

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