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Update the PRE-INSTALLED software image to a current release

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* The default firmware provided is a minimal Linux-based distribution with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Poky Platform Builder.* This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn create a SD card with latest firmware available and if the user want write to the flash memory for any IGEP devices as quickly and easily as possible.* Note that this How-To was tested with an Ubuntu 10.04 host machine, but most of the contents are valid also for other GNU/Linux distributions. We do not issue any guarantee that this will work on other distributions.* This How-To will start out by creating a bootable SD card with latest firmware image.* Next, we will cover how to write the firmware image to the flash memory from the SD card.= Summary =
= How This article explains how to '''update the pre-installed software''' of your IGEP Processor Board to create a SDcurrent release. This will update to the latest available version of the pre-card with latest installed software image =, which consists of IGEP X-Loader, IGEP Kernel and the IGEP firmware Yocto.
The first thing you'll do is download latest firwmareThis tutorial will follow the following steps:
wget http://downloads.igep.es/binaries/firmware/poky-#'''Download the latest firmware-3''' from ISEE in a Linux PC.3#Run a script that will automatically setup and '''create a MicroSD card''' with the latest software in your host PC.1-8#Then '''boot your IGEP Processor Board''' from that MicroSD card you have just created.tar#Finally, you can write the updated software from the MicroSD to the '''flash memory''' on your IGEP device.gz
Next{{Message/Information Message|message=If you want to run a '''different software distribution''', untar the firmware and enter you can follow this article: [[How to the directoryboot from MicroSD Card]].}}
tar xzf poky-firmware-3.3.1-8.tar.gz cd poky-firmware-3.3.1-8/ Insert your SD card into the host machine (the machine you downloaded the firmware), and run following command<br>
.{{Message/poky-media-create --mmc [device] --binary poky-image-sato-igep00x0-20110921101149.tar.gz --machine [machine]Forum}}
where:
* [device] is the SD card device name, for example: /dev/sdb
* [machine] is the machine name, options are
** igep0020
** igep0030
Finally plug the = How to create a SD -card into IGEP device and power up your board.with the latest software image =
= ''(from [[How to flash create a SD-card with the latest software image =]])'' {{:How to create a SD-card with the latest software image}}
Now you have a booted board with latest firmware running from SD card, you can write the firmware = How to flash the flash memory.latest software image =
Enter ''(from [[How to flash the IGEP device using root as login name and an empty password, enter to the /opt/firmware an run the ./flash scriptlatest software image]])''
cd /opt/firmware ./{{:How to flash.shthe latest software image}}
When finish, unplug the SD card and reboot the board, enjoy the new firmware running = Pre-installed software on IGEP Processor Boards =''(from flash memory.[[Pre-installed_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards]])'' {{#lst:Pre-installed_software_on_IGEP_Processor_Boards}}
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