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How to Make a SimpleCV Bootable Thumb Drive

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codetab edited this page Apr 22, 2013 · 2 revisions

SimpleCV has a lot of dependencies and it can take a lot of time to set up correctly. We realize that this can be a huge problem if you just want to start coding, and make it really hard to run a SimpleCV class. For this reason we created a SimpleCV bootable iso that runs from a thumb drive/usb key/dongle. This bootable disk runs the latest version of Ubuntu with Python, SimpleCV, and has most of the SimpleCV optional libraries pre-installed.

  1. The first step to creating your bootable disk is to download the SimpleCV bootable disk ISO. You can download the ISO here. The ISO is pretty big (~1.3gigs) so it will take awhile.

  2. Download and install UNetBootin (there are versions for Linux, OSX, and Windows).

  3. Get a USB key for your bootable disk. It will need to have at least 2GB of space. Everything on this disk will be erased when you install the SimpleCV iso.

  4. Follow this guide to install the SimpleCV iso to your usb thumb drive.

  5. Restart your computer with your thumb drive plugged in and let SimpleCV load. You may need to monkey with your computers bios settings to make it boot from the attached drive versus your hard drive.

  6. Once your machine boots you should be able to login to the SimpleCV account using the password "simplecv." Once you log in you can open a terminal and start the SimpleCV shell by typing "simplecv" in the shell. If you would like to use SimpleCV in the ipython notebook simply type "simplecv notebook" in the shell.

If everything worked you should see something like this: SimpleCV

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