BeagleBoard-xM
A modified version of the popular BeagleBoard, the BeagleBoard-xM is a
very small, low powered ARM device designed with open source software
development in mind. The Beagleboard-xM is produced by Texas Instruments
and Digikey and offers a showcase for TI's OMAP3730
system-on-a-chip(SoC).
Technical Specifications
- TI DM3730 Processor - 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 core
- 512 MB LPDDR RAM
- Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 2D/3D graphics processor
- DVI-D (HDMI connector chosen for size - maximum resolution is 1400x1050)
- 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet
Running Fedora on a BeagleBoard-xM
This page will give you detailed instructions for running Fedora 18 on your BeagleBoard-xM. The provided images will boot to a serial console.
Download the image
The first step is to download the prebuilt Fedora 18 image, which includes everything you will need to boot your system. It will require a minimum of 4GB for the root filesystem. There two images available for the Beagleboard, a hardware floating point (armhfp) image, and a software floating point(arm) image. If you are unsure of which to choose, the hard floating point image is recommended, and will be used in the provided examples below (adjust accordingly for 'arm'):
Writing the Image
Linux Users
You can write the image to an SD card of your choosing but it does
have to meet the minimum size requirements noted above (2GB for the
serial image, 4GB for the XFCE Desktop). Connect the SD card to your
computer and make note of the drive. To write the image to your SD card
run the following command, changing the drive to the location of your SD
card.
For the HFP Image:
xzcat Fedora-18-beagle-armhfp.img.xz > /dev/<location-of-your-SD-card>
For the SFP Image:
xzcat Fedora-18-beagle-armhfp.img.xz > /dev/<location-of-your-SD-card>
Once completed run the below command to ensure the entire image is written to the card:
sync
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