On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Jeff Andich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a hard time finding a Debian Jessie console image (.img file) for both
> BB-X15 and BBB.  I eventually found that here,
> https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Build_Instructions/
> , but it seemed like LXQT images were more readily available.
>
> But if we needed a console image, it seemed like there were two options (1)
> do sudo apt-get remove on unnecessary packages or (2) use image builder.

Like here?

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian

Section 6.1.4.2

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#microSD.2FStandalone:_.28console.29_.28BeagleBoard-X15.29

Yeah... it's a long list, i'd entertain ideas for how to better show that..

>
> Regarding option 2, Image Builder.
>
> 1) Is Image Builder for everybody to use or mainly for Robert to generate
> BeagleBone/BeagleBoard images?  I saw an earlier thread (circa 2014) where
> Robert indicated that it was created mainly for him to use to generate
> images and referred to it as a "frankenscript."

Yeah you can use it.. Just make sure to run it on arm..

./RootStock-NG.sh -c bb.org-debian-jessie-console-v4.4

Generates:

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-10-02/console/debian-8.9-console-armhf-2017-10-02.tar.xz

and:

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --img-1gb
bbx15-debian-8.9-console-armhf-2017-10-02 --dtb am57xx-beagle-x15
--rootfs_label rootfs --hostname BeagleBoard-X15

Generates:

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-10-02/console/bbx15-debian-8.9-console-armhf-2017-10-02-1gb.img.xz

> 2) Can Image Builder now run on a host Linux machine with the Linaro
> toolchain, for instance, or is it still intended to be run on an Armhf
> device?
>
> This wiki from 2015 says build on ARMHF:
> https://elinux.org/BeagleBoneBlack_Rebuild_Debian_Image_Using_image-builder,
> "QEMU is un-reliable, thus no longer supported... Spend some Money and buy a
> real ARMHF device to run this script."

If your goal is to fix QEMU, and your getting paid lots of money to do
it.. The script is a great "test" script to find broken things in
QEMU...

> 3) Is the procedure for generating images in image builder still as per
> https://elinux.org/BeagleBoneBlack_Rebuild_Debian_Image_Using_image-builder
> or is there an updated wiki now?

I just run this every week:

Thing is with all the images, there's really not "one" script...

I've split it into multiple "builds"...

http://gfnd.rcn-ee.org:8080/view/bb.org-jessie/

http://gfnd.rcn-ee.org:8080/view/bb.org-stretch/

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/blob/master/publish/rcn-ee_bb.org-stable.sh

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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