Looks like Beaglebone has custom Debian images as of March 5th: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/
And here, it says they have plans for future BBB's to come preloaded with Debian on the eMMC: http://beagleboard.org/project/debian I did the the eMMC Flasher version of Debian and it was so easy! This was a good tutorial: (it says for Angstrom, but I followed the exact same instructions for Debian) https://learn.adafruit.com/beaglebone-black-installing-operating-systems/mac-os-x Works great, and now I have Debian on my BBB, the distro I've grown to love :) On Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:50:53 PM UTC-8, WB8TKL wrote: > > Greetings, > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > I have killed a dozen sd cards running RaspPi. > > Frustrating thing is that it happens after a few days. > > Sold off about a doz RasbPi and vowed never to touch it again. > > > > Have run the same software on BBB in outdoors condition of a week. > > Works good. So far BBB with angstrom works good. > > Excepting for the 4th BBB card, could not dd from sd card to emmc. > > Worked fine for the first 3 cards. > > Having to upgrade OS from sd card is not a good idea as I had to > re-install > > packages and apps. > > Too bad that Punky hasn't ported "Voyage Linux" to the ARM processor. > Voyage is small (runs in 128 - 256 megs), designed to run embedded, > doesn't use 'systemd' but instead uses SysV/init startup so it is REALLY > easy to manage services, supports IPv6 and does NOT use that horrid little > 'connman' package, has a MUCH larger repository of software packages > available (compared to Angstrom), and runs in READ-ONLY mode so as NOT to > wear out the memory. You can run 'remountrw' and 'remountro' when you > need to make changes to the configs. > > Been running Voyage for YEARS and haven't worn out a memory card, yet! > > If Voyage were ported to the ARM and included the Device Tree > Overlays, > I'd jump ship in a heartbeat :) > > --- Jay Nugent WB8TKL > UNIX/Linux SysAdmin instructor > Washtenaw Community College > > > -- 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.
