IOT-GATE-IMX8PLUS and SBC-IOT-IMX8PLUS: Debian Linux: Preparing Live Media
Overview
This article provides instructions needed to prepare Debian Linux Live media for IOT-GATE-IMX8PLUS / SBC-IOT-IMX8PLUS devices. The recommended installation procedure is using a host PC with a Debian-based operating system.
Downloading the OS image
- Download IOT-GATE-IMX8PLUS and SBC-IOT-IMX8PLUS Debian Linux image archive.
- It's referred to as iot-gate-imx8plus_debian-linux_YYYY-MM-DD.zip further in the article.
Preparing the workstation
- Obtain a Debian-based workstation with a free USB port.
- Obtain a USB flash drive. Any commercially available USB flash drive of 4GB (or larger) may be used for the installation.
- Plug the USB flash drive into the host PC. From now we assume the device name of the flash drive on your Linux PC is /dev/sdX.
Preparing Live Media
- Flash the image file to the USB flash drive:
unzip -p /path/to/iot-gate-imx8plus_debian-linux_2023-10-11.zip | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync