The first step is to get the latest Debian ARM7 image from the following link:
http://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz
Simply burn the image to an 8-GB, class 10 microSD card. There are a lot of instructions to do this with various operating systems, so I won't include them here.
Once you have burned the image, install the card in the BeagleBone and power it up. The default username is debian
and the password is temppwd
.
The easiest way to access the BeagleBone I have found is via SSH, even though the Lapdock has a keyboard. The brief instructions for setting up SSH using PuTTY are explained in the following section.