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4. The system powers off after the installation is complete.

NOTE: The installation takes about 3 minutes to complete.

5. Remove the USB drive after the Edge Gateway powers off.

6. Power on the Edge Gateway again to continue the installation. The system reboots several times during the installation and takes

about 10 minutes to complete.

Once installation is complete, a login screen is displayed.

7. At the login screen, enter the default user name and password: admin.

The Edge Gateway is now ready for use.

NOTE: For more information about accessing Ubuntu on the Edge Gateway remotely, see Boot up and log in – Remote system

configuration.

Flashing a new OS image

Prerequisites

• A blank and FAT32–formatted USB flash drive with at least 4 GB of storage space

• Ubuntu Desktop ISO

NOTE: You can download the latest version of the Ubuntu Desktop ISO file from http://releases.ubuntu.com.

• A released Ubuntu Core 16 image from Dell.com/support:

img.xz

• USB keyboard

• USB mouse

• Ubuntu workstation with Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 or higher

Flashing new Ubuntu OS image

1. Insert a USB flash drive into the Ubuntu Desktop workstation.

2. Copy <unique name-date>img.xz to ~/Downloads/ directory.

3. Flash the installation image to USB flash drive.

a. Start the Terminal application. It can be found by typing Terminal in the Unity Dash.

CAUTION: The dd command erases the content of the drive it writes to.

b. Type the following command and press Enter.

xzcat <unique name-date>img.xz | sudo dd

of=/dev/sda bs=32 ; sync

NOTE: The sda may have to be replaced with the actual name of the drive on the system.

4. Unmount and remove the USB flash drive.

5. Connect the power and Ethernet cable to your Edge Gateway.

6. Insert the USB flash drive into your Edge Gateway.

7. Power on and boot up the Edge Gateway from the USB flash drive.

The installation USB flash drive flashes the Ubuntu Core 16 installation image into storage automatically. After the installation is

complete, the system shuts down.

8. Remove the USB flash drive.

9. Power on the system.

Ubuntu Core 16 is installed on your Edge Gateway.

Creating the recovery USB flash drive

Prerequisites:

• Service Tag of the Edge Gateway

• A Windows computer with administrator rights and at least 8 GB of available storage space to download the Dell ISO recovery image