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Console commands are in cursive letters and bold, comments to a command follow the command
inside brackets.
Example:
   commandInCorsiveLetters   commands_in_cursive_letters_and_bolt   (comment in brackets)

Identify your SD card

Inserd the Sd card into the system, start a console [Ctrl + Alt + t] and type:
     lsblk   (list the disks conected to the system / Get SD-card-path)

Example output:
NAME  MAJ:MIN  RM      SIZE  RO   TYPE    MOUNTPOINT
sda            8:0         0     120G     0    disk
├─sda1     8:1         0     112G     0    part /
├─sda2     8:2         0         1K     0    part
└─sda5     8:5         0         8G    0     part   [SWAP]
sdc            8:32       1       7,2G    0    disk
└─sdc1     8:33       1         1M    0    part
sr0           11:0         1   1024M    0   rom

RM = Removable ? → sdc is the SD card with one partition sdc1

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To format the card, start the tool fdisk by typing:
     sudo fdisk /dev/sdc   (sudo=grant root, enter password    fdisk=tool   /dev/...=SD card)
The command promt changes to Command (m for help).

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To create the partition table run:
   sudo umount /dev/sdX*     (umounts=unmount  *=all partitions)
   sudo sfdisk /dev/sdX < PathToTextFile

(To read the partition table from a storage device - sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sdX > PathToTextFile)

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Before writing data to the partitions, unmount the device
      sudo umount /dev/sdX*
and plage the SD card  in and out of the card reader.

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The W95 Fat32 partition needs to be formated.
   sudo umount /dev/sdX*
   sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdXp (p=partition number, needs to be 1)

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The ext(2/3/4) partition is formated via:
   sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdXp   (p=partition number, should be 2)

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Usually these folder is placed inside the mnt folder, for example:
   sudo mkdir /mnt/card   (create mounting point folder)

Mount it:
   sudo mount /dev/sdXp /mnt/card   (p=partition number, should be 2)

Extract the ... .tar.gz file to the partition:
   sudo tar -xvf pathToCompressed.tar.gz -C /mnt/card/   (x=decompress v=show progress -C=extract to)
   sudo sync   (imported, empty all buffers)

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The tool should be in the folder:
   \intelFPGA\18.1\embedded\host_tools\altera\diskutils
Copy the   SPL u-boot.bin   and   the Main u-boot.img   to it, change to the directory:
   cd pathToAlt-boot-disk-util   (cd=change directory)
and run:
   sudo pathToAlt-boot-disk-util -p preloaderImage.bin -b mainU-boot.img -a write /dev/sdX   (the tool finds the a2 partition)

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