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Installing ITEAD OS under Win system

Official address for downloading win32disk imager:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download

Run win32 disk imager.

Select the downloaded ITEAD OS mirror image and Micro-SD card drive. In this case, Micro-SD card drive is E and OS mirror address is D:/itead.img

Click 'Write', select 'Yes' in the pop-up dialogue box,and write ITEAD OS mirror image to Micro-SD card.

After it is successfully written, the system will prompt 'Write Successful'.

Withdraw Micro-SD card and then insert it into socket on Iteaduino PLUS, connect to power supply and monitor, then we can enter the wonderful world of ITEAD OS.

Installing ITEAD OS under linux system

Let's take Ubuntu as an example.

Use shortcut keys Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal

Insert Micro-SD card into the system and confirm device name of Micro-SD via entering command fdisk

 sudo fdisk -l

As shown in the following figure, in this case, Ubuntu system loads Micro-SD card as /dev/sdc

And Micro-SD card file system can be unloaded via command umount

sudo umount /dev/sdc1 
sudo umount /dev/sdc2

In the folder where img file locates, write mirror image file to SD card via command dd

 dd ms=1M if=itead-plus-beat-0814-final.img of=/dev/sdc

After the card is successfully written, the system will prompt information such as time spent on and speed of writing the card.

Withdraw Micro-SD card and then insert it into socket on Iteaduino PLUS, connect to power supply and monitor, then we can enter the wonderful world of ITEAD OS.