The default install is Debian and includes quite a lot. They're just isn't anything in your home directory.
As with everything it's much easier with internet, but you can copy files to a cdr and then load them on the BB via your host computer that you SSH from. It's a pain but I've done it. Dependency management is hell, of course. As you've seen so far, you don't need windows drivers, so you should be pretty good. Not sure what kind of air gapped network lets you just bring in images willy-nilly, but you seem to have gotten around that so far, so look for bb images which already have whatever you want. There is one with a graphical environment pre-installed, for example. Good luck. Life is always better when you can apt-get. J On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 9:27 AM TW <taylorkwh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've never used BeagleBone's before and I work in a lab with no internet > connection, trying to get started with BeagleBone Blue boards for a > project. The lab has Windows 10 computers, USB cables, 12V adapters, SD > card readers, and an external CD drive. I have access to another facility > with a secure internet connection for downloading and I can use an external > CD drive to transfer files. I thought I could download everything off of > the secure connection, transfer to the lab, and install but I'm having > problems. When I tried to run the executable to install the Windows > drivers, it failed because of no connection. Also I tried to install > Chrome, required for the browsing the web server running on the board, and > it also failed. I was able to install Putty and connect using an SSH > terminal (192.168.7.2, debian, temppwd). But it didn't look like their was > anything loaded. I found a bin folder in the root directory that was empty. > > The Getting Started instructions that came with the board says to connect > the board to a computer with a USB cable and then connect to the internet. > I obviously can't do that and I'm beginning to wonder if these boards will > work at all without an internet connection. I hoping someone has a clever > solution for me to work with these limitations. > > -- > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/07074f27-40b7-4284-9b6c-c3dbf04e01ec%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/07074f27-40b7-4284-9b6c-c3dbf04e01ec%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAGS%2B2h_9755XCxovVQFRmPvBAdi3RxRZUaBRGcGBj76oZibJWA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
