errr, ooops, you must make sure the boot partition is marked as active boot
with fdisk.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:11 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes. By using tar, and the "imaged" partition(s) would have to be
> "offline".
>  Meaning you would have to put the sdcard into a system that was already
> running Linux. Here is the gist of things:
> http://www.aboutdebian.com/tar-backup.htm
>
> So anyway, once you have a rootfs backup, you'd have to use fdisk, or
> sfdisk to create a new partition(s), then makefs to create the file
> system(s) type that you wanted. Finally, tar the image onto the new
> filesystem.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:39 AM, William Pretty Security <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not to worry.
>>
>> I do have one question though.
>>
>>
>>
>> My actual image size is usually about 3GB, however I can only find 8GB
>> uSD cards.
>>
>> I tried just formatting half of the card (4GB) but I still get an 8GB
>> image, using the ‘standard’ imaging tools.
>>
>> Is there some way I can Image just the boot partition and the roofs?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *On Behalf Of *William Hermans
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2015 12:26 AM
>>
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Displaying GPS Data ?
>>
>>
>>
>> William,
>>
>> Sorry, the only notes I could find are rather incomplete, and I could not
>> find the puTTY log sessions I used to have on my old laptop. I could piece
>> together a couple of txt note files I kept that are sort of exact steps I
>> used to create the whole setup. More or less.
>>
>> Something to consider though. I do not use the any of the "official"
>> images for my own "production" images. I have kind of a what some may
>> consider a "convoluted" setup. I use two images, both of which are NFS
>> rootfs;s. One for development, and one for "production". The development
>> image I use to install all necessary development tools such as gcc,
>> build-esential, checkinstall, etc. On which I built my own version of
>> nodejs( 0.10.29 if memory serves ). When then I created a Nodejs *deb
>> package to install on the "production" image.
>>
>> My production image is pretty much just RCN's bare-fs rootfs, with a
>> minimal set of what I consider necessary tools installed. openssh-server,
>> psutils, ntpdate, etc. The whole thing including Nodejs sits( again, if
>> memory serves ) at around 95M total size in flash though . . . which is why
>> my setup is so convoluted . . .
>>
>> Anyway, if you're interested, let me know, and I will try to get you
>> something as complete / accurate as possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:53 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> complete code for the Nodejs app
>>
>>  index.js
>> http://pastebin.com/w4PiZ23t
>>
>> index.html
>> http://pastebin.com/vbDx1KG0
>>
>> package.json:
>> http://pastebin.com/u4vc0w8x
>>
>> It's a rather simple app, but it could be as complicated as one would
>> like. I pastebin'd package.json so you would know which versions of
>> express, and socket.io I used. Which can be pretty important if you're
>> new to nodejs like I was when I first wrote this app . . . I also have
>> noted somewhere but I'll have to dig for them, it's been several months
>> since I learned / wrote this, and javascript / nodejs is not really one of
>> my strong points . . .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:32 PM, William Pretty Security <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. That would be GREAT !!
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *On Behalf Of *William Hermans
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:51 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Displaying GPS Data ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I did the same thing with a TEMPer v1.4 USB thermometer dongle. Running
>> the application through Nodejs, and then parsing the output in a callback.
>> Let me see if I can find my code, or notes.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:45 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Nodejs + child_process.exec to run the GPS executable, and then in a
>> callback parse the output. Then do with it as you wish. Something like this:
>>
>> http://www.dzone.com/snippets/execute-unix-command-nodejs
>>
>> In that example though the person is just printing the output of pwd to
>> stdout, etc. But the concept is the same-ish.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:25 PM, William Pretty Security <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Group;
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a webpage server running on a BBB. This page currently serves
>> (streams) video from my robot.
>>
>> I would like to also display the Lat/Long from the onboard GPS.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have CGPS installed and working. It writes text to the console.
>>
>> What I would like to know is how to send this text to a text box or
>> whatever on the web page.
>>
>> I’m thinking node.js + java script?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
>> nothing" Edmond Burke *(1729 - 1797)*
>>
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
>>
>> http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/bill-pretty/2b/b07/602
>>
>>
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