In addition to the software packages available via the opkg package manager, we also make available pre-built images.

Complete microSD images

If you are using a 2 GB microSD card, the simplest way to try the latest release is to download a bootable image that you can copy to your microSD using your development machine's dd utility.

These prebuilt images are available at:

http://www.gumstix.net/overo-gm-images/

Download the image (beta-2.img.bz2 for this example) and then uncompress it:

$ bunzip2 beta-2.img.bz2

You will now have a file named beta-2.img which should be exactly 1900000000 bytes in length (it is somewhat undersize in order to fit on 2 GB microSD cards with bad blocks)

Now insert your microSD card into the slot on your development machine.  This example assumes that the card mounts at /dev/sde.  If it mounts at a different spot on your machine, you will need to adjust the following commands.

$ sudo dd if=beta-2.img of=/dev/sde

Now unmount the microSD card.

$ umount /dev/sde

You now have a microSD card with 2 partitions:  a bootable FAT partition with MLO, u-boot.bin and uImage; and an ext3 partition containing the root file system.

Insert it in your Overo's microSD slot and apply power.