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This chapter describes the ways to receive the SHR software (image and boot loader). For installing SHR distribution you need a SHR image and a boot loader.
Downloading a pre compiled image and boot loader is the fastest and easiest way to dive into SHR. SHR provides different pre compiled images on its web site: SHR Images You can choose between:
For the first steps downloading the “Lite Image” is sufficient.
Install “QI” as default boot loader is a good choice. The download can be found under: SHR boot loader,
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This chapter describes the SHR installation.
If you want to install SHR on SD card you should read this section.
Before the SD card can be used, it must be partitioned and formatted.
Find the device name of the SD card
For the further installation process the device name of the SD card must be known. A simple test will provide the name.
Please open a terminal (also known as console) as normal user.
Type in
cat /proc/partitions
, this will print the list of currently known devices and partitions. An output may look like this:
user@computer:~$ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 64 244198584 sde 8 65 92156841 sde1 8 66 145998720 sde2 8 67 1 sde3 8 69 6040408 sde5 user@computer:~$Now plug the SD card into the SD card reader and type again:
cat /proc/partitions
Now compare the result of previous output with the current output:
user@computer:~$ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 64 244198584 sde 8 65 92156841 sde1 8 66 145998720 sde2 8 67 1 sde3 8 69 6040408 sde5 8 80 7977472 sdf 8 81 7976021 sdf1 user@computer:~$In this case
8 80 7977472 sdf 8 81 7976021 sdf1was the difference between both outputs. So the device name of the SD card is “/dev/sdf”.
In the previous example the SD card contained one partition. Please configure your SD card to have one partition using the whole space.
One choice is to use EXT3 file system. It''s a journaling file system, so a power loss of your phone should not destroy all your saved data.
![[Warning]](images/warning.png) | Warning |
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| Please use this file system only on your SD card because it writes very often on SD card and that is not what flash memory is made for. But SD cards are very cheap, and destroying internal flash is very expensive. |
To format your SD card execute:
![[Caution]](images/caution.png) | Caution |
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| Please check, that you are using the right partition name ! If you use the wrong partition, you may loose important data ! |
user@computer:~$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdf1
Now you are ready to mount your SD card partition (please create the mount point before)and copy your SHR image to your SD card:
user@computer:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdf1 /mnt/sdf1
user@computer:~$ sudo tar -C /mnt/sdf1 -xzf /path/to/your/image/lite-om-gta02.tar.gz
Now the image is ready to boot. Please plug it into your phone and enjoy the boot process.
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This chapter guides you thru the first configuration process on first boot.
After booting a fresh installed SHR image the SHR Wizard will be started automatically and guides you thru the initial configuration process.
This is is the initial page of the SHR Wizard. Please press
to start the initial configuration of your
mobile device.
