Difference between revisions of "Robotino3 usb restore"

Revision as of 09:21, 1 April 2014

Robotino 3 has a SSD that stores the operating system. A bootable USB stick is used to

If you are using the blue USB-stick that shipped with Robotino you can skip most of these steps and just copy the current image to the USB-stick.

Download the Robotino3 custom image.
Take a USB-Stick and format it (quick format will do)
Use Core2USB to install this custom image to the USB stick.
Download the latest image and it's md5 file from here. With Firefox you need to right-click the file and choose save link.
Check the integrity of the image using md5. Run md5 -Check:imagefilename.fsa.md5.
Copy the image into the boot directory of your USB-stick.
Attach monitor and keyboard to your Robotino 3.
Plug the USB stick into any of Robotino3's USB port.
Power on Robotino3 and hit the F7 as long as you can see the BIOS startup screen.
Select your USB stick from the list (not the UEFI entry).
After booting into tinycore the restore script is executed automatically.

After installing the image and booting Robotino, Robotino's wireless settings are

SSID: Robotino3AP
PSK:  robotino3ap

This can happen, when mounting of the USB-stick failed. Please try the following steps:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
sudo restore.sh

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 ==Create a bootable USB-Stick==
+If you are using the blue USB-stick that shipped with Robotino you can skip most of these steps and just copy the current image to the USB-stick.
 * Download the Robotino3 [http://doc.openrobotino.org/download/tinycore/CoreCustom_20131126004528.iso custom image].
 * Take a USB-Stick and format it (quick format will do)