Thanks, I'll go back and re-read your articles. The lumpynose wordpress site is really just a place for me to keep notes to myself. In a previous life I helped other sysadmins so I naturally feel the need to say as much as possible and assume the reader knows very little, in case someone stumbles across this page.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:05 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Rusty, > > If you read all the articles I wrote that pertain to the various steps I > took along the way. There would be no guessing. > > Anyhow the first part of that article describes what must be done( from > 30k feet ), and the second half is a working example, based on previous > steps I took for the netboot article. It really does not get much shorter./ > concise . . . My idea of an article was meant to teach a person to fish, > instead of just giving them a fish( as the saying goes ). Just goes to show > no matter how hard one tries to "please" all, it never happens ;) > > @Robert, > > The reason why I put the uImage, and dtbs files on the USB drive, simply, > I am newb to embedded Linux, Linux development, and expect to recompile > things several times in the process. Knowing what I do about flash media . > . . I'd rather put as much as possible on non flash media. > > In the end for my own personal usage. the Netboot install is the best of > all worlds. It is the most flexible for development all around. WHere as > perhaps the USB boot would be best suited for using the BBB as a low > powered desktop replacement. > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Rusty Wright <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Ok, thanks. I didn't understand that. Your instructions say >>> >>> cd ~/rootfs/ >>> >>> Is that where Robert's debian image is that you're using? I didn't see >>> on your page >>> where you extract or download his files. >>> >>> In my instructions I want to spell everything out and minimize guessing. >>> >> >> >> I always cheat.. ;) I never really convert an image from microSD to >> external usb-sata.. I just usually pick the sata drive during the partition >> stage of the "NetInstall" script.. Although I've never tried to go as far >> as you, and also stick the kernel zImage/dtbs on the usb-sata drive.. >> >> 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. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/9T6feUimWR4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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.
