Installing Angstrom on a Hard Disk
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Summary
In most cases, you will boot Angstrom off a microSD card on the MinnowBoard. In this guide, we will see how to boot Angstrom off an external storage device such as USB flash drive, SATA, HDD etc.
Note:- For the purpose of this guide, I am using a 4GB USB flash drive. These instructions can be replicated for any similar external storage device like SATA, HDD(Hard Disk) etc. Also, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was the reference operating system for these instructions.
Procedure
Step-1:
Download the latest Angstrom HDD image from here. Please note that this hdd image is different from a sd card image.
Step-2:
Download the script that will write this image to the external storage media from here. In our case, a USB flash drive.
Step-3:
Now extract the Angstrom image that you downloaded earlier by right clicking on it and clicking on the 'extract here' option. You should see the resultant image having only a '.hddimg' extension from the original '.xz' extension.