On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, KurtE <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it is working good for me. :) > > But after reading the happy new year message, I have also been wondering > that if the standard release will be Debian, should I try building my own > images from the links that were listed there for both the actual image and > kernel? > > But if I do, should I stick with the 3.8 kernel? Or 3.12 or 3.13?
If you want 'full' cape support stick with 3.8.. If you are just using usb/ethernet with simple capes* (usart/i2c/spi) use 3.13 (i'm working on adding most capes to 3.13 at the moment..) ignore 3.12.. ;) > My assumption is the build scripts assume I am running linux. Can dual boot > to this on my main dev machine to Linux Mint, or could use my NUC which I > think right now I have running Ubuntu 13.04. The scripts assume linux, mostly tested on debian jessie, but works in ubuntu.. Note the "image-builder" works best native on arm hardware.. (qemu is too bit rotten for 100% reliably between distro versions) > > A few more things to investigate: > 1) If I build an image and write it to an SD card, can I try it out (boot > off of it) without it overwriting the EMMC? There will be a traditional "flasher" which will overwrite the eMMC and a secondary "4gb img" which you can dump to your microSD and it'll run on that. > 2) I am trying to learn ROS and convert my code of at least one of my robots > to use it. I tried building it on my BBBk, but don't think 2gb is enough > storage to build even the minimal install from sources. Some options to > look at: > a) Is there some place to apt-get install from? I saw a posting for > downloading on Angstrom and maybe Ubuntu... More to look at. > b) Run off of SD card with more storage? > ... This is the most reliable.. (then you can usb for something else..) > > 3) Boot off of EMMC, but have more storage external. SD or USB thumb??? > > Sorry about the rambling, just thoughts about things for me to try out Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
