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link for most recent version of the software from the server closest to
your location. Note that a compressed image file will be downloaded,
so you will need to uncompress this file before flashing it to the boot
media. To do so, you will need a specialized utility to uncompress
the downloaded file. A reliable utility to uncompress such files is the
7-zip program. Launch a web-browser such as firefox and navigate to
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
able installation files for this utility. Click on a link that corresponds
to your host computer's OS. Details of your OS can be found via the
msinfo32.exe or systeminfo.exe commands, when run in cmd window.
download link that corresponds to the 64-bit Windows OS, in this case,
7z1602-x64.msi.
List of 7-zip installation files
tions, and wait for 7-zip to finish installing. Next, launch the Windows
Explorer application and browse the download directory. Select the
downloaded compressed image file and right-click the file with the
mouse. Select the 7-zip menu option and under that select the Extract
Here option. After the uncompress process, it will result in the image
file that can be flashed. In this example, it will be ubuntu64-16.04lts-
mate-odroid-c2-20160525.img.
pressed image file, such as the Win32DiskImager utility. Hardkernel
has an updated version of it that adds a useful step to the flash process,
which clears the boot media, prior to writing the image. This version of
Win32DiskImager.exe can be downloaded from the following URL:
http://dn.odroid.com/DiskImager_ODROID/Win32DiskImager-odroid-v1.3.zip
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Each of the entries in the list is also a link. Click the download
The Windows OS used for this guide is a 64-bit type. Click the
After the file is downloaded, run it and select the default op-
Another essential utility is one that will be used to flash the uncom-
Chapter 2
, which will list all of the avail-