Hi William, Thank you for the reply. I understand that when used as a USB slave, there will be no security for the portion of the file system that appears as a thumb drive.
Is it possible to plug the BBB in as a slave device and have the PC see the SD card instead of the default BeagleBone Getting Started location? Ted On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 8:15:49 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > If you wish to use only to the ethernet or serial aspect of the driver you > may disable g_multi and then . . . > > > 1. enable g_ether for ethernet over USB > 2. enable g_serial for serial over USB > > Note: only one gadget ( g_* ) driver can be used at a time. Hence g_ multi > to encompass all 3 drivers in one. > > > Disabling one driver, and then enabling another *can* be tricky depending > on which init daemon you're using. If you're using SYSV, then simply using > modprobe can / should work. To make the change persistent across reboots, > put the driver ( name ) into /etc/modules. As for systemd, I'll leave that > up to you, and your search engine of choice. As an exercise. > > > Search terms: > > 1. g_multi > 2. g_mass_storage > 3. g_ether > 4. g_serial > > Now, if using a Windows host, and wishing to change what directory / > partition the BBB is pointing to, you have a couple problems. First, > Windows has no idea how to read Linux file systems - Out of the box. > Second, Since the only real common file system shared between Linux, and > Windows is of type FAT( which probably means FAT 32 and exFAT as well ). > Well the FAT filesystem has no concept of file permissions. Which means > such a file system / partition can not be set as read only, or have files > accessible only by certain users. e.g. a potential security issue. > > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Ted <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> When the BBB is plugged into a host PC via USB it appears as a removeable >> drive that points to /boot/uboot. It is possible to configure the BBB to >> point somewhere else when used as a slave device? >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
