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Setting up the UP Board
This tutorial will guide students through the initial configuration of the Aeon UP Board by installing Ubuntu, ROS, and configuring the board for use with the included Realsense R200 camera. This tutorial assumes that students already have a bootable USB drive of Ubuntu for installation on the UP Board. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest distribution is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. If a bootable drive is needed, the ISO can be downloaded here and directions for creating a bootable USB using OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu Linux, here, here, and here respectively.
Step 1: Install Ubuntu on the UP Board
Pictures of cables
Start by booting the UP Board form the USB drive you created. Use two of the USB 2.0 ports for a keyboard and mouse, plug a monitor into the HDMI port, and the bootable drive into one of the remaining USB 2.0 ports. Finally, plug the power cable in to boot the board. After a few seconds, the UP ogo should appear, followed by GRUB bootloader. To install Ubuntu press the second option.
Picture of GRUB Bootloader
During the installation of Ubuntu you will be prompted to make a few decisions. These were the choices made for this installation:
Screen 1: Welcome Selected the default “English”
Screen 2: Preparing to install Ubuntu Did not check either of these options. Updating Ubuntu is covered in later steps.
Screen 3: Installation type Select the default “Erase disk an install Ubuntu” and continue to write changes to disk.
Screen 4: Where are you? Select your location/timezone. Las Vegas, Nevada in this case.
Screen 5: Keyboard layout English (US)
Screen 6: Who are you? Select you personal identification for your device. As these will be used in our lab, they are currently labeled numerically with identical passwords.
After the automated installation is complete, select the Restart Now option and wait for the UP Board logo to appear before disconnecting the power cable. While disconnected, remove the bootable USB drive, then reinsert the power cable to boot from the newly installed OS. Use either an Ethernet cable or WiFi adapter to connect to the internet as it will be required for future steps.
Step 2: Update Ubuntu for the UP Board
Now that Ubuntu is installed on the board, the software needs to be updated and the default kernal needs to be set to the Linux-Upboard Kernel
sudo apt update sudo apt -y dist-upgrade
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubilinux/up sudo apt update sudo apt -y install linux-upboard sudo apt -y autoremove --purge 'linux-.*generic'
sudo reboot
uname -r