How to get Ubuntu for a raspberry pi?

Question

I've got a raspberry pi and want to install Ubuntu on it from an sd card. I'd like if you could give me step by step info on how to do it. Thanks!

P.S: While you're at it, could you tell me how to overclock the raspberry pi from Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Forget Ubuntu. You will not be able to get it working, because the R-Pi has an ARM CPU, not an Intel one.



Choose Raspbian, because it is Debian compiled for the ARM chip, so it gets the best out of the hardware. You won't notice much difference from Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is based on Debian anyway.



Advice on overclocking the Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008

Answer 2

Hey, I've been looking to do the same thing, however it seems as though we will both run into significant problems. Mainly that, to the best of my knowledge 'Canonical' (The makers of Ubuntu) don't officially support ARMv7 (the processor that Raspberry Pi uses). Unofficially, there are apparently ways to do this, but I think they involve using multiple Raspberry Pi's in conjunction to manually build a personalised package (hassle much?).



Personally I still want to switch OS's as I find the Raspbian OS awkward and unnatural as far as a Linux distro goes. So the options seem to be:

- Download one of the other OS's that officially support the Raspberry Pi.

from here http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

I think I'll give RISC OS a try.



- Try Debian or similar.

I'm relatively sure that there are other various mainstream Linux distro's that do

officially support the Raspberry Pi, however they will have to be lightweight enough

to run without almost melting it.

Answer 3

you will want a DHCP server to bypass media on your pi, as quickly as you're on debian wheezy you may seem at udhcpd. besides the user-friendly fact so which you will get a wifi stash and connect your hdd to it and bypass video clips on your google nexus and various wifi gadgets. this sort you may desire to take your media everywhere and bypass because of the fact it has it particularly is particularly own battery capacity. regrettably the pi would desire to require separate capacity.