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Update the PRE-INSTALLED software image to a current release

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[[Image:Warning_icon.png|left|52x47px]]<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''IMPORTANT NOTE''': This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but '''WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY'''; without even the implied warranty of '''MERCHANTABILITY''' or '''FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE'''</span>
 
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By default, if you power up your board it will run the software on the flash. But '''you can prepare a MicroSD card and boot from it''' by inserting it to the MicroSD card reader of your IGEP Processor Board, as it has more priority than the flash.
 
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If you have a brand new IGEP Processor Board you must know that '''it comes with a firmware''' provided and installed on it by ISEE.
 
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Therefore, when you power up your board it '''boots the pre-installed software''', which consists on a minimal '''Linux-based distribution''' with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Poky Platform Builder.
 
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If you want to '''update your pre-installed software''', you can '''create a MicroSD card''' in your host PC with the latest sofwtare. Then boot your IGEP Processor Board from that MicroSD card.
 
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Finally, you can write the updated software from the MicroSD to the flash memory on your IGEP device.
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This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn to:
* '''create a SD card with latest firmware''' available
* write it to the flash memory
* 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 Processor Board as quickly and easily as possible.* <br><br>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.<br>
= How to create a SD-card with latest software image =
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