After having a Beaglebone and Beaglebone Black for over a year mostly trying different kernels in an attempt to find a solution to a problem with random long latencies in the SPIDEV driver that break my real-time servo loop (unsuccessfully, so I've moved on to other things), I finally tried the "latest" Angstrom for my Rev. A5A Beaglebone Black. I must say, I'm very impressed with what functionality is fit into the 2GB eMMC image!
That said, space is tight (<500MB free) on the eMMC. I've added an SD card for extra storage so I've plenty of space for "my stuff" but I'd like to remove some of the default packages I won't be using to free up some space on the eMMC. For example, gimp froze the system when I accidentally opened it by double clicking a jpg file, and while I love the Gimp, I can't see the need for it on my BBB. Also I installed Xfce to work around an OpenCV window display issue as shown here http://beagleboneblack-guide.blogspot.com/p/opencv_13.html so Lxde and its apps can go, perhaps along with gdm since lxdm is now installed and running. Actually this Xfce seems to work better than Lxde did, although it seems to have broken the automatic login. Cheese is another I've never found useful to have. Also, I doubt I need three web browsers installed. Obviously opkg remove pkg-name should work, but how do I find out the package names that were in the pre-built image? My other worry would be that stuff I want is combined with stuff I don't in a single package. My Google-Fu is weak trying to find Angstrom documention about using and administrating the system, although I did find a tantalizing "Angstrom Manual" but its link was dead. Once I'm "finished" I'd like everything to boot and run from the eMMC without any SD card. -- 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.
