[beagleboard] installing Linux on beagleboard

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I am a newbie both in BeagleBoard and in Linux. Do you have any
approximation how long it would take to install and run Angstrom or
Ubuntu and openCV library? I know there are some SD cards with
installed Linux on them prepared for beagleboard. However, I'd rather
to try and install it myself, if it wouldn't take so much time.

Thanks in advance,
--Nastaran

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Do you have any
approximation how long it would take to install and run Angstrom or
Ubuntu and openCV library?

Angstrom: 15 to 20 mins (If you have downloaded the images)
You can build the image using Narcissus (http://narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org/) and select OpenCV as one of the package.
You can follow Trey’s instructions (http://treyweaver.blogspot.com/2010/10/setting-up-qt-development-environment.html) to extract and copy the files on your SD card.

Ubuntu will require 30 to 45 min to install.

All the Best.
Aadeesh

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Better use these instructions: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/

Following random blogs is about as bad as following instructions on random wikis.

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Those instructions say what to ad to use DSP for 128 and 256meg devices. Is it different for 512 on the XM?

“If you want to use the DSP, you need to add ‘mem=99M@0x80000000 mem=128M@0x88000000’ to bootargs for 256MB ram devices and mem=99M@0x80000000’ for 128MB RAM devices”

THANKS,
Mark