On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what the instructions state on > http://beagleboard.org/getting-started : > > Update board with latest software > > Step #1: Download the latest software image > > Download the desired image from https://beagleboard.org/latest-images. > > > and the above link, https://beagleboard.org/latest-images , is precisely > where I got the image on the SD card in question from: > > Wheezy for BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black and SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green via > microSD card > > Debian 7.9 (BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green - 4GB > SD) 2015-11-12 - more info - bmap - sha256sum: > f6e67ba01ff69d20f2c655f5e429c3e6c2398123bcd3d8d548460c597275d277 > > > Why am I using 7.9 and not 8.4? Because I need kernel 3.8.x for the cape I > am using. The cape is unsupported under 4.x kernels.
in 8.4 you can do: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone79 There back to 3.8.x based kernel ;) > So, why do you state "Robert's Debian images have not used a two partition > layout in quite some times now"? Please explain. There were two partitions > on the SD card that I flashed with the 7.9 image above. The smaller > partition was the FAT32 one that shows up as a drive in Windows if I connect > the Beaglebone to a Windows host with a USB cable. This smaller partition > has mostly getting-started documents. On newer image's we use an *.img file instead of a hard-coded fat32 partition... > If the 7.9 images are no longer supported, Beaglebone should say so and not > suggest them as latest images. "supported" is a loose term.. If you want 100% fully supported, you'll need to bug someone who get's paid to do this. (i don't get $ for it.) > > Also, can you please kindly explain "check your link, as in reload the page. > It no longer exists"? I didn't put in a full link below to save space. The > full link to the instructions that I followed that yielded an SD card with > greatly diminished capacity was provided by Robert above in the second reply > to the original post, > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYioykuXx43wvLWYOga-xMeA2AJ9%2Bq8DuDz5dkjBu5hryg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
