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
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>
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>
>
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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