Thanks Robert!! Yeah, I guess those images were kind of right under my nose, but images/builds/build instructions are in so many different locations, sometimes it's hard to know where the best place to look is and what the best practices are. (I know, you're probably tired of hearing that excuse..)
One other potential compelling case for going to image builder (or building everything from source if you know how to do that) is the tags go back way before Jessie (maybe even before Toy Story existed?). So at some point, when Jessie falls off of the list in https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Felinux.org%2FBeagleboard%3ABeagleBoneBlack_Debian&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHj4gBb6B3MdKhrmzLdfbnbOwCIfw>, looks like you can still get back to a Jessie image through image builder. Is this a reasonable assumption? Cheers, Jeff On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 7:04:34 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Jeff Andich <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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 > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Felinux.org%2FBeagleboard%3ABeagleBoneBlack_Debian&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHj4gBb6B3MdKhrmzLdfbnbOwCIfw> > > > 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/ > -- 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/9d225394-78c5-4590-85e0-41023d04cbec%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
