#1 Personally I would run from a uSD card to make sure it is what you want. Plus it doesnt hurt to run from the sd card, unless you do not have a uSD card + sd card adapter, and do not care to spend money on this.
#2 I'll defer to someone else, as I am not a MAC person. #3 NO idea where you got this impression. All the instructions I've seen are *NIX based, and I *DO* personally run Windows for my own desktop environment. #4 You would have to boot up via uSD to write out the eMMC I believe. You may want to consider dedicating a machine, or perhaps use virtualbox to have a Debian wheezy i386 support system. This really depends on how serious you are. As an example, I compile my own kernel based on Robert Nelsons instructions, and build a custom rootfs also based on his bare rootfs stuff. Which I mount rootfs over our network ( to prevent me from ruining flash media while I experiment / tweak various things ). On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Brian Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > I am fairly certain that this has been answered but I have spent the last > two hours perusing the Wiki, the website, and the forums looking for a > definitive path to move my BBB from Angstrom to Debian. I am left with some > questions which I am pretty certain someone has already answered but I > still need pointers. > > 1. Is it better to run Debian from MicroSD or from the eMMC? > 2. My native OS environment is MacOS. I have decompressed both Debian > images on my Mac. For the MicroSD it seems the easy way to write the image > is with dd using a 512-byte blocksize (one sector), right? > 3. Is there a way to write the eMMC image from MacOS? I'd rather not > have to boot up Windows if I can avoid it. (After all, we are trying to run > linux and having to run Windows in order to do maintenance on a Linux > system just seems ... wrong.) > 4. Is there a way to write the eMMC image from the running BBB? Seems > that maybe I get it running from MicroSD and then rewrite the eMMC. > > Thank you. > > Brian > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
