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/

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