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Setting Up MythTV on a Wandboard

Download Robert C. Nelson’s Netinstall utility. This will allow you to boot off a Micro SD and run the Debian Installer.

cd netinstall

sudo ./mk_mmc.sh –mmc /dev/sdX –dtb wandboard-quad-revc1 –distro wheezy Continue reading →

The process is fairly straight forward, but there are some requirements:

A TFTP server with some specific files. These should all be in the root of the TFTP directory.
The latest version of the SheevaPlug U-Boot binary.
The latest version of the Debian installer image (uImage and uInitrd).
The latest version of the Linux kernel (optimized for SheevaPlug; uImage and Modules).
A 2+ GB USB thumb drive.
Terminal emulation software (GNU screen, PuTTY, minicom, HyperTerm) [Note: Mac OS X’s version of screen seems to have issues with the debian installer, so I used PuTTY in a VM.]