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== How to get the About Linaro distribution ==Linaro™ brings together the open source community and the electronics industry to work on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce industry wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software distributions and stacks to land on.

== Overview of How-To ==This How-To [[Image:Linaro.jpg|left]][http://www.linaro.org Linaro™] is meant a Not For Profit (NFP) organization that aims to be make embedded open source development easier and faster. Linaro will create a starting point common software foundation for people software stacks and distributions to land on and provide the best open source tools for developers to learn install a develop on. The focus is on low level software around the Linux kernel that touches the silicon, key pieces of middleware that enable new markets and tools that help the developer write and debug code. Linaro image for OMAP3aims to maximize the potential of the latest features of ARM-based IGEP platforms as quickly processors, helping provide optimized performance in a lower power envelope. Linaro is both a community and easily as possiblea supported project with engineering teams spread globally.

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== Linaro releases == At the end of each cycle linaro do an integrated build of software with this variants:  *Headless (no graphical UI) *Netbook (Netbook style UI) *ARM Linux Internet Platform (ALIP) *Handset (A KDE/Plasma based user interface) You can download the linaro rootfs releases from here:  {| width="800" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"|-| Type | Release | File|-| Nano | 12.04 | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.gz|-| Nano | 11.09 | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-11.09-nano-n-tar-20110929-0.tar.gz|-| Netbook | 12.01 | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-12.01.tar.gz|-| Headless | 10.xx | http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-m-headless-tar-20101108-2.tar.gz|} Or directly from the linaro website.  == Install Linaro 12.04 nano distribution == Download the linaro package tarball  wget http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/distros/linaro/linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.gz Once the file is downloaded you can create bootable SD-Card, under Linux, untar the package   tar xzf linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.gz cd linaro-nano-12.04-0 Insert a SD-Card media and use the igep-media-create script to create a bootable SD-Card.  ./igep-media-create -–mmc &lt;mmc&gt; --image &lt;image file&gt; --machine &lt;machine&gt; where: &lt;mmc&gt; - is the SD-Card device of your computer.&lt;image file&gt; - is the file that contains bootloader, kernel and rootfs image.&lt;machine&gt; - is the IGEP Processor Board. Available options are:  *igep0020 - For IGEP v2 Processor Board *igep0030 - For IGEP COM MODULE Processor Board *igep0032 - For IGEP COM PROTON Processor Board For example, assuming the SD-card device takes '/dev/sdf' and you have an IGEPv2 board ('igep0020'), type  ./igep-media-create --mmc /dev/sdf --machine igep0020 --image linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.bz2 For example, assuming the SD-card device takes '/dev/sdb' and you have an IGEP COM&nbsp;MODULE ('igep0030'), type  ./igep-media-create --mmc /dev/sdb --machine igep0030 --image linaro-nano-12.04-0.tar.bz2

At These methods should give you a bootable SD-card. Insert the end of each cycle linaro do an integrated build bootable SD-card media into the micro-SD card socket of software IGEP device and power on it. This should result in a running system with this variants:* Headless (no graphical UI)* Netbook (Netbook style UI)* ARM Linux Internet Platform (ALIP)* Handset (A KDE/Plasma based user interface)a Linaro nano image.

=== Install Other Linaro 10.11 =Distributions ==

* httpsPlease follow the next [http://wikilabs.linaroisee.orgbiz/Releasesindex.php/1011/FinalHow_to_boot_from_MicroSD_Card howto].<br>

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linaro<br> -media-create -That's all folks -rootfs ext3 --mmc /dev/mmcblk0 --dev igep \ --binary linaro-m-netbook-efl-tar-20101108-1.tar.gz \ --hwpack hwpack_linaro--gep_20101109-1_armel.tar.gz