On 3/28/2014 9:15 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Steve French of Volt Vision > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Robert, >> Thanks for the flurry of updated Debian images for testing (3/4, 3/19, >> 3/27). I am happily trying the different images, but when I download the >> image and "start from scratch" it takes me several hours to get back to the >> point where I can use my system again. I use Open Lighting Architecture and >> it takes me about 4+hours to do everything necessary to compile it from >> source. Could I update to your newest distros somehow by running a script >> (Mar4 -> Mar19 -> Mar27)? ... or is it necessary to wipe everything out and >> reflash the image from scratch? Some of my BBBs I flash the eMMC and some >> of them I boot directly from the uSD. Thx!! (and sorry if this has already >> been answered somewhere). > > cd /opt/scripts/fixes > git pull > > sudo ./debian-2014-03-04-to-2014-03-19.sh > sudo ./debian-2014-03-19-to-2014-03-27.sh
Another option is to put your lighting code on a network file share, or you can rsync the build directory to a server somewhere. You'll probably have to re-run some of the build steps (like the install part) when switching to a clean OS, but it ought to take much less than 4 hours to setup from scratch, and you shouldn't have to actually recompile anything (which is typically _slow_ on the BBB). I worked this way when getting LinuxCNC running on the BBB. I mounted a home directory via nfs from a remote server, and I was able to swap between various boards and OS installs while keeping a consistent development environment. This also let me use some tools running on full-blown Linux and Windows systems that would have been a bit heavy for the BBB (my regular text editor, some graphical git utilities, etc). -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -- 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/d/optout.
