From: Brian Lloyd <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 at 6:51 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] path of least resistance to Debian
> 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. ;-) There are some incompatibilities with OSX, but if you use ³MacPort² or ³HomeBrew² or ³Fink² to get the GNU tool versions. Since the GNU version are the same as Debian or Ubuntu, the same instructions will work on Mac. > >> >> #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 only issue preventing me from using OSX for all my BBB development is Linaro does not have a cross compiler for OSX. Also OpenEmbedded/Angstrom/Yocto do not work on OSX. Since running Robert Nelson¹s scripts depend on Linaro, you cannot use his build scripts either. For now I use an Ubuntu 14.04 box. You might want to consider Parallels and install Ubuntu x64 which works great. Regards, John > > 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 <tel:%2B1.916.877.5067> > -- > 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. -- 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.
