If a minimal system is what your after I recommend buildroot. It takes some effort but it can be made very minimal... On Jun 26, 2014 9:39 PM, "Iben Rodriguez" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Those are some good links. One of the new BBB Rev C units I just got had > a bad HDMI port and so I had to send it back for RMA. When I got the > repaired unit back it had angstrom on it so i had to figure out how to > flash it back to debian. > > The instructions here: > > - > > http://hifiduino.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/beaglebone-black-base-operating-system/ > > > look good except that I'd be sure to get the latest "flasher" image from > here: > > - http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#Flasher > > Updates seem to happen on a monthly basis: > > - 2014-06-05 > - BeagleBone Black: v3.8.13-bone56 kernel > - 2014-05-06 > - BeagleBone Black: v3.8.13-bone49 kernel > - 2014-04-18 > - BeagleBone Black: v3.8.13-bone47 kernel > > > One of the nice benefits of this experience (ordeal?) is that I got a base > or bare minimum debian install with none of the fluff and there was even > some hardening done as far as the usernames and passwords go. > > Below I will share some of the details for your consideration. > > Here is the disk usage with the original factory image: 44% full using > 1.4G of the 3.4G on board flash. > > *Factory image:* > > root@beaglebone:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > rootfs 3.4G 1.4G 1.9G 44% / > udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev > tmpfs 100M 632K 99M 1% /run > /dev/disk/by-uuid/8aecba16-c811-47ee-86ed-78588c08ce2a 3.4G 1.4G 1.9G 44% > / > tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user > tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock > /dev/mmcblk0p1 96M 72M 25M 75% /boot/uboot > /dev/mmcblk1p1 63G 5.1G 58G 9% /media/NO NAME > > root@beaglebone:~# > > *Base image: * > > root@arm:~# uname -a > Linux arm 3.8.13-bone56 #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 23:59:23 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux > > root@bbb1:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail > Use% Mounted on > rootfs 3.4G 630M 2.6G > 20% / > udev 10M 0 10M > 0% /dev > tmpfs 100M 1.5M 98M > 2% /run > /dev/disk/by-uuid/ae487a65-a8c7-44e8-a20f-acadab4e5fb5 3.4G 630M 2.6G > 20% / > tmpfs 249M 0 249M > 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs 249M 0 249M > 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > tmpfs 100M 0 100M > 0% /run/user > tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M > 0% /run/lock > /dev/mmcblk0p1 96M 79M 18M > 82% /boot/uboot > > I also restored the password settings so I could login with no password. > > passwd -d root # to clear the password > vi /etc/pam.d/common-auth # change the line below > pam_unix.so nullok > > vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config # To enable empty passwords, change to yes > PermitEmptyPasswords yes > > > > I b e n > +14087824726 > > Skype: ibenrodriguez > Twitter: @iben <https://www.twitter.com/iben> > Google: iben.rodriguez > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Chad Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Chris, >> I have found this site to be useful >> >> http://hifiduino.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/beaglebone-black-base-operating-system/ >> Enjoy and be prepared to re-flash and re-install software several times. >> Chad >> >> >> On 6/26/2014 2:49 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:16 PM, <[email protected]> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone! >> >> I just got my BBB rev C in the mail on Tuesday! Super excited about it too >> :D >> >> What I'm wondering is - there's a lot of extra software on the system that I >> don't really need. Is there a list somewhere of all of the specialized >> software that's installed, so that I can take the system back to a more >> standard setup? Eg., I'd rather have Apache serve out over port 80, rather >> than whatever's doing so currently, and I don't need the developer tools on >> the board itself (I'll put them on my other computer.) I don't really need >> all the X stuff either. For the most part, I just want a basic server (that >> I can install some additinoal software to) that can be used to access all >> the GPIO, UARTs, etc. >> >> Well, the factory image was based on this image: >> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#eMMC:_BeagleBone_Black >> >> So, reflashing that image would be easier then to tell you which of >> the 600 packages was added ;) >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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