Install Instant Contiki
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[edit] Requirements
- About 6 GB disk space
- VirtualBox (Windows, Linux, Mac) http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads or
- VMware (Windows, Linux) http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Instant Contiki is an entire Contiki development environment in a virtual machine. The download is fairly large (about 1.7 Gb) and Instant Contiki requires a bit of disk space (around 6 Gb), but it helps tremendously in terms of getting up to speed quickly.
Instant Contiki is a complete virtualised Linux system that contains Contiki and all its development tools. The hardware requirements for Instant Contiki are a decent CPU (1.5+GHz advisable) as well as a good amount of memory (2GB of RAM advisable, ideally 4GB or more). For configuring your own virtual machine see Instant Contiki Install Scripts.
Instant Contiki makes the installation of Contiki very easy: just download the zip file, unzip it, and run the VMware player. No need to go through lengthy installation processes or worry about incompatibilities with compilers, Java versions, or other tool chains.
[edit] Download
Download Instant Contiki from the Contiki web site: http://www.sics.se/contiki/instant-contiki.html
Windows users can install VMware Player or Virtual Box to run Instant Contiki. Mac OS users can look at these installation instructions: Installing Instant Contiki on OS X part 1, with Parallels Desktop 4.0, Installing Instant Contiki on OS X part 2, with Virtual Box.
[edit] Adding instant Contiki to VirtualBox
To add the instant Contiki VM to Virtual Box you have to create a new Virtual Machine and use the downloaded Harddisk.
[edit] Starting instant Contiki
Once Instant Contiki is installed, start it! You should see how the virtualised system boots up and finally reaches the login screen.
[edit] Log in
After Instant Contiki has booted, login using the username "user" and the password "user" (without quotes).
Note: Contiki 2.5 VM only username "user" is needed to login.
You have now logged into the fully configured Ubuntu with all the necessary tools needed to start Contiki development. Furthermore, you have Contiki pre-installed, so you can start developing straight away. After the login, the screen should now look like this:
NOTE: InstantContiki2.5 desktop does not contain any icons.
You are now ready to rock and roll and plunge knee deep into Contiki development! Go back to the Getting Started section to continue with the introduction to Contiki.
