On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: > So you are saying I will still need to stay with the 7.9 image series for > BoneScript for the foreseeable future?
or install the 3.8.x based kernel on jessie. > Will the image be 2016-01-31 or something else? I notice the > beagleboard.org/latest-images page was last edited Jan 31, 2016 but the > latest 8.3 image is 2016-01-24 and the latest 7.9 is the 2015-11-12 I'm > currently using. I'm not in control of that page: Watch: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian > Can I get to 8.3 2016-01-24 from 8.2 2015-12-06 with apt-get updates and > installs? or should I download the new image and start over? Yes/No Yes, you will get the same packages.. No, you will not get the "extra" packages/things i added to "2016-01-24"... > The node-red I've installed for the 2015-11-12 image appears to use > BoneScript for the "Beaglebone" nodes as I had to edit the config file to > allow bonescript to get them to work. But there is no PWM node, although > the GPIO nodes seem to throw the same errors in the terminal that ran the > node-red-pi command to start everything as does the tab in Cloud9 that runs > the BoneScript example programs. (I haven't bothered with starting node-red > automatically yet). > > > Thanks for explaining the bmap tool, I'd wondered what the *.bmap files were > for, when I've downloaded images I'd just figured I didn't need them :) > > > I think the "top level" beaglebone.localhost web page needs some serious > updating as the link: > http://192.168.7.2/bone101/Support/BoneScript/updates/ > is still talking about Angstrom. That repo is right here: https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-getting-started go ahead fork it and submit pull requests. > > This is all someone like my friend would likely see if he'd just bought a > board and hoped for the best. He'd quickly be terminally dead-in-the-water > confused and either just give up on the idea or go back to trying to > implement it by wiring up timers and relays. He's in a rural area with only > cell-phone service Internet access so hours of Googling and websurfing is > just not practical. Books like the "Beaglebone Cookbook" and ""Exploring > Beaglebone are great, but they are wrong in ways very disconcerting to a > beginner by the time they are published. > > While the link to beagleboard.org/latest-images is good, there is nothing > there to give him a clue as to if he'll need 7.9 8.3 or Angstrom. This is > not helped by the fact that boards like the BBG seem to be shipping with > completely broken images in the eMMC -- there are other threads here about > this. Angstrom is dead, it's maintainer left for a job at linaro, NO ONE has stepped up since the fall of 2013 to pick up maintenance. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- 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.
