2) Preparing and Starting the Live System
To follow this QuickStart and the descriptions in the Application Guide you need our
phyBOARD-Mira Live System. The Live System includes all software installations (e.g.
BSP, Eclipse, Qt Creator) necessary for a successful start-up of the phyBOARD-Mira.
You can either use a bootable USB flash drive with the preinstalled Live System, or you
can download a VM hard disk image from our web side.
U s i n g t h e L i v e S y s t e m w i t h a b o o t a b l e U S B f l a s h d r i v e
If you have purchased our bootable USB flash drive you are already in possession of our Live System.
1.
Plug in the USB flash drive and ensure that your PC system‘s boot priorities are set to
boot from the USB flash drive first.
2.
Restart your PC system to boot the Live System.
3.
The UNetbootin boot menu, shown on the right hand side, appears
(A)
.
4.
Press
Enter
to confirm the already marked selection Default, or wait 10 seconds to
start the Live System. The modified Ubuntu desktop appear
(B)
.
5.
Continue with
3) Getting connected
.
O r u s i n g t h e p r e p a r e d V M h a r d d i s k i m a g e
You can also use our prepared VM hard disk image (.vmdk) which includes our Live System
as an alternative to using an USB flash drive. This compressed image has a size of approx.
19 GB and can be freely downloaded from our web side to mount it into a virtual machine.
1.
Download the compressed VM hard disk image (VPB-01501-xxx-v1.tar.xz) in the
download area category software under
www.phytec.eu/phyboard-mira/#download
.
2.
Unpack the compressed file to get the included .vmdk file, which is supported by
most virtualization software (VMware Player and VirtualBox are tested).
3.
Follow the instructions of your virtualization software to create a new virtual machine.
However, pay regard to the following settings required to obtain an appropriate
virtual machine: · choose Linux - Ubuntu 64-bit version as operating system
· use the unpacked file VPB-01501-xxx.vmdk as hard disk
· an Ethernet adapter, as well as a serial interface must be available
to connect to the phyBOARD-Mira
4.
Start the virtual machine with our hard disk image. You will see the modified Ubuntu
desktop
(B)
.
Now you are ready to connect your PC with the phyBOARD-Mira.
S e r i a l c o n n e c t i o n
1.
Connect one end of the serial cable to the DB-9 connector on the Evaluation
Module (PEB-EVAL-01).
2.
Connect the other end to the first serial interface of your PC (or to an USB to DB-9
dongle, connected to your host).
3.
Click the
Microcom_ttyS0
icon
(C)
on the Ubuntu desktop (for direct serial interface
connection) or click the
Microcom_ttyUSB0
icon if you are using an USB to DB-9 dongle.
4.
Click the reset button
S1
on the phyBOARD-Mira (or power the board off and on).
A serial console has been started within your Live System. You should see a boot
message and the login-prompt on this console
(D)
.
Congratulations!
5.
Use “root” as the log-in-name on the serial console and press
Enter
.
6.
As a good example (and helpful for understanding the next step) enter
ifconfig
.
You will get information about the configuration of the Ethernet interface on the
phyBOARD-Mira
(E)
.
E t h e r n e t c o n n e c t i o n
We recommend disconnecting your host-PC from any other network, because a
peer-to-peer connection from your PC to the phyBOARD-Mira will be established.
1.
Connect your preferred Ethernet interface on your PC with RJ45 connector
X4
(eth0)
on the phyBOARD-Mira using a standard Ethernet cable.
2.
Configure the IP-settings on your host platform in Ubuntu:
• In the
Unity-panel
(left side of your desktop) click on the
Ubuntu
logo
(F)
.
• The Ubuntu dashboard will open; enter
System Settings
in the search field (you
will see the corresponding icon showing up already during typing of the search string).
• Open
System Settings
(G)
and click on the
Network
icon.
• Select the physical interface to which you have connected the Ethernet cable
(H)
(if you have more than one network in the list) and click on
Options
.
•
Select the
IPv4Settings
tab
(I)
and choose
Manual
(K)
in the
Method
drop down box.
• Click
Add
(L)
and enter the IP address
192.168.3.10
and
255.255.255.0
as subnet mask.
• Last, click on
Save
(M)
to save these connection settings and close the windows.
You are now ready to test the Ethernet network connection.
3.
Click on the
SSH for Target
icon
(N)
on your desktop. A console window will
open and you will see an authentication question. Type
yes
and press
Enter
.
You are now connected to the target
(O)
.
Congratulations!
Y o u r p o s s i b l e n e x t s t e p s
• Read our Application Guide available on the desktop of the Live System.
• Check out the product page on the PHYTEC website (
www.phytec.eu/phyboard-mira
)
for latest documentation, downloads and FAQs, or under (
www.phytec.de/phyboard-mira
)
• Contact our support team if you have any questions getting the phyBOARD-Mira up
and running.
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