OK, I have a BeagleBone Black and a PocketBeagle on their way to me and have some microSD cards also on order. I am a long time Linux user and have 4 Raspberry Pis on my LAN. I generally prefer the command line. I have read the Getting Started guide (http://beagleboard.org/getting-started) and have a few questions:
1) What does Etcher do that 'xzcat image.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0' (this is what I have done with my Raspbian images) does not do? Do I really need to download this pointy-clicky app? I would rather not. 2) The BeagleBone Black has a proper Ethernet jack and I'd just as soon *not* have the BeagleBone Black run its own DHCP server and instead use the DHCP server I already have on my LAN. Is there something I can do (eg tweak a file on the image once I put it on the SD card from my Linux laptop) to make it just do that? I can find its MAC address and update my DHCP server to give it an address of my choosing (and update my DNS database to give it a host name). 3) The PocketBeagle does not have a Ethernet jack, so I will be limited to using it tethered to connect to it from my computers (either my Laptop or one of my 'Pis). Will it be possible to ssh into it and use scp and/or rsync to move files and not bother with its silly pointy-clicky web interface? 4) I guess the image files expand to a 4G file system, but the micro SD cards I will be using are 32G. I presume there is a utility to expand the file systems, once booted the first time? I didn't see anything about that on the Getting Started page... -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services -- 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/20190324202824.DE18C26C20DB%40sharky3.deepsoft.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
