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,
>>
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