On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:42 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> #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. > I have a 16GB uSD card to run from. Just wondering what the pros and cons are. Seems that the cons are worry that the eMMC will reach its write limit. I don't think that will be an issue for my application as I intend to use the BBB as an embedded system. (See below.) > > #2 I'll defer to someone else, as I am not a MAC person. > Mac is just FreeBSD once you are in the shell (for the most part). There are worse places to be. ;-) > > #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. > I couldn't find any instructions other than for doing it from Windows until I was pointed to the Adafruit site. > > #4 You would have to boot up via uSD to write out the eMMC I believe. > I now have Debian running from the uSD card and it is working just peachy. Attempts to copy the eMMC version to the eMMC didn't work but I only want that as a backup to the uSD. Eventually I will probably want to run from eMMC when I close everything up and shove it into a rack. > > 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 ). > Thank you. I may go that route. I have a couple of machines I plan to dedicate to Linux (one is already running ubuntu -- not sure that is going to stay that way). Is there a good cross-development environment or is it just as easy to build on the BBB itself? The project right now is turning the BBB into a GPS-disciplined NTP server. The plan is to have a local UTC display (I think Nixies would be cool for that classic retro look but 7-segment LED displays would be OK too and easier to drive) and eventually use it to discipline my Rubidium reference as well. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 [email protected] +1.916.877.5067 -- 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.
