Or one could always use Robert Nelsons barefs and just replace the rootfs /
install what you want / need via apt-get install.

http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Jesse Cobra <[email protected]> wrote:

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