+1 for NFS mounted shares. I like to share out a rootfs for my BBB, and then run Samba from the server so I can map the drive on Windows to make things easier for me. Since I run many dev tools on Windows, including a cross compile setup.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Charles Steinkuehler < char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > On 3/28/2014 9:15 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Steve French of Volt Vision > > <voltvis...@gmail.com> 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 > char...@steinkuehler.net > > -- > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
