We will walk you through the steps of flashing Ubuntu Core on an Intel IEI TANK 870. At the end of this process, you will have a board ready for production or testing snaps.
Minimum requirements
Download the Ubuntu Core 18 image for the Intel IEI TANK 870.
You can then verify the integrity of the download using the associated SHA256SUMS file and the md5sum command on most Linux distributions.
Open a terminal and use the following command to find out the target disk device to install the Ubuntu Core image to:
sudo fdisk -lRun the following command, where <disk label> is the label of the second USB flash drive:
xzcat /media/ubuntu/<disk label>/<name of the image>.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/<target disk device> bs=32M status=progress; syncconsole-conf will download the SSH key registered with your Store account and configure it so you can log into the device via ssh <Ubuntu SSO account name>@<device IP address> without a password.ubuntu user on these images, but you can run sudo passwd <account name> to set a password if you need a local console login.Your board is now ready to have snaps installed, it's time to use the snap command to install your first snap.
The Snap Store is where you can find the best Linux apps packaged as snaps to install on your Ubuntu device and get started with your secure IoT journey.