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Preparing the eMMC module
Shown above is the alignment when using the Transcend USB3
microSD card reader / writer model. The alignment may be different
with your own microSD USB adapter. Next, ensure that the computer
you are about to use to flash the image, has a functioning connection
to the Internet. Now that you have the USB SD card reader / writer
with the boot media inserted, attach the male USB end of the USB SD
card reader / writer to the appropriate (USB3 or USB2) female port on
the computer/USB3-hub.
The boot times are shortest for eMMC 5.0 modules, midway for
class 10 microSD (microSDHC / microSDXC UHS-I) cards and lon-
gest for class 4 microSD cards.
Flashing an Image on a Microsoft Windows Computer
As soon as you attach the USB SD card reader / writer for the first
time, the Windows OS will sense the presence of a new USB device
through its plug-and-play (PNP) infrastructure. It will obtain the device
identifiers from the device and search through its local database. If
found, it will install it for the first time. If not found, it will request you
to provide a location for the driver or seek to find it over the Internet.
Once the driver is obtained for the first time, it will install it and request
permission to reboot the system, which should be allowed. Once in-
stalled, it will use the driver on all subsequent sessions.
After the system has booted, launch a web-browser such as Firefox
, which will list all of the avail-
able Ubuntu images. Click on the link to download the latest Ubuntu
16.04 image, for example,
.
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