On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:23 AM,  <patr...@joytech.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would appreciate some insights into whether or not this would be possible
> with the current beaglebone black hardware.
>
> Could I have a BBB running ubuntu that at the same time can be plugged into
> a pc and act as a USB mass storage device?
>
> So for example just say I have a computer running windows xp with no admin
> rights to install drivers, could I plug a BBB into this computer, have the
> BBB show up as a mass storage device, copy files to a location on the BBB
> (possibly a virtual filesystem or separate SD card partition), BBB performs
> some form of processing on the files etc...
>
> Hope this makes sense.

That's easy, we've been doing that by default since the bbb came out
with the images hosted here:

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

you can see how we do it by looking at our init script..

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/blob/master/scripts_device/am335x_evm.sh#L29

adapt it to your image as needed..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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