On 12/29/2013 1:59 PM, Bas de Bruijn wrote:
> 
> On 29 Dec 2013, at 20:40, Charles Steinkuehler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> When I'm actively developing, I typically don't keep LinuxCNC on
>> the SD card, but mount a remote NFS share where I usually have
>> multiple LinuxCNC directories on various branches and/or in various
>> states of "working".  Once your LinuxCNC build directory is on a
>> powerful machine, you can make rsync backup copies, LVM snapshots,
>> or whatever you want
>> 
>> LinuxCNC has a "run in place" feature, from the directory where
>> you built the code, just run "scripts/rip-environment" and you'll
>> be setup to run the build in that directory.  Different shell
>> windows can be setup to run different versions of LinuxCNC.  If you
>> want to do this, make sure to comment out where the rip-environment
>> script is run at the end of /home/linuxcnc/.bashrc!
> 
> Thanks again Charles, I’ll have a look into that. Would an external
> disk like a seagate portable drive work as well? I’m running a
> MacBook Pro with linux under Parallels, but my macbook is not always
> in the vicinity of the BBB, Furtermore I have a mac mini server, but
> setting up NFS shares on that one seems more work than an external
> drive.

An external drive will _probably_ work OK, but lots of folks have had
issues with USB on the BeagleBone.  I have very limited experience with
the 'Bone and USB mass storage, and that was with kernels from quite a
while ago.  Things have gotten a lot better since then...you'll just
have to test it and see how it works.

My BeagleBones are never close to my server, but they always have a
wired network connection, so it's easy for me to use NFS.  You could
also use any network file protocol of your choice, it doesn't have to be
NFS.  Just install the appropriate Debian packages for whatever
protocol(s) you're running on your mac mini server and away you go!

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
[email protected]

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