Hey guys Currently, I don't have the ability to set up my own image, so I went with the Machinekit.io suggestion of just flashing the pre-existing file on elinux. The current version (2019/12/16) I could not get fully functional for the life of me, I got past the login easily enough, and then it just sits there with the cursor indefinitely. I spent about two days working on it, trying different things to get it to run, with no luck. This morning, after working through the night I realized for the sake of a sanity check I should flash other things to check if it was my process, and managed to install Debian, and then I attempted to hunt for an older image to try. Me and a friend searched for about an hour for something prebuilt, and couldn't find any backdated ones, so eventually I resorted to Wayback Machine, and the next closest I could find was from 2017. I got that one working with no trouble, but it doesn't seem to have support for my board (CRAMPS) and is, I'm sure, missing out on all the cool tech you guys have been working on for the past two years.
I know you guys are normally a little more intense than "I screwed up installing" and I wouldn't want to be the annoying noob with the idiot question, but I've been working on solving this for around 2.5 days and all I've got seems to point to "Something is wrong with the latest prebuilt image". I've worked with a few singleboard computers in the past, and I worked in QA for software for a bit, so I'm trying my best to point *at* the problem, but I don't have the linux chops to know exactly what's going wrong here. My old Ubuntu machine fried around 6 years ago and I haven't had the time or courage to go back since. The only other thing I can think of is the (brand new) beaglebone was actually just ancient stock, and is no longer supported by the current update? If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful, I'm already quite a ways into this project in both time and money, and was hoping to have some steppers spinning by christmas. Thanks a bunch -Alice -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" 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/machinekit/925ed3c6-1c8c-4d1d-a9db-50031f589347%40googlegroups.com.
