Hi William, I have actually been reading about how to do a netinstall all morning. Never a better time than now to learn something useful, right? I think I may give this a go in the next few days. Thanks for the advice :)
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:44:50 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > Micheal, > > The best solution IMHO would be to start with a minimal or bare > filesystem, and install *only* the packages that you need. But this means > you're going to have to take time and learn how to do so. Using these > instructions: http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black You > would skip anything related to compiling / copying over the kernel or > u-boot and do something like the following > . . . > > 1) remove the rootfs partition on the sdcard. > 2) create a new partition on the sdcard. > 3) extract the barefs rootfs image onto this new partition. > 4) follow the directions for modifying configuration file on the newly > extracted rootfs so Debian knows how to behave. > 5) once logged into the new system su to root, and apt-get install what > you need. > > *NOW* do keep in mind it is rather early for me ( have not had my morning > coffee so to speak ), and I have not personally tested, or given this much > thought aside from the occasional musing. So I may not have remembered > *EVERYTHING*. However this is the gist of how to achieve what I propose. > > Eventually though, you're going to have to get your hands dirty and learn > this stuff. Maybe not for this project, but perhaps for another. You may as > well start learning now. > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Michael Thompson <thompsonm...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yeah, that's why I am going to retry it later today. I followed the last >> instructions before I left for work and didn't keep notes on which steps >> failed and why. I am going to start from a fresh install this afternoon and >> keep track of what happens so that I will be able to give more detail >> instead of just posting a dejected "Nothing works!!" reply. Sorry for being >> whiney, I'm just getting frustrated :( >> >> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:19:52 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: >> >>> It might be helpful if you told us why it does not work. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Michael Thompson < >>> thompsonm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This didn't work either. I am losing all hope that I will ever get this >>>> thing to work. I guess I will try again later today and maybe some magic >>>> will happen. >>>> >>>> On Monday, June 16, 2014 9:54:22 PM UTC-7, crazybucket wrote: >>>> >>>>> You do use the /var/www directory for apache. The problem, as someone >>>>> else mentioned, is that there is another webserver running on it out of >>>>> the >>>>> box, so you need to disable it and the associated mess with systemctl: >>>>> >>>>> systemctl disable cloud9.service >>>>> systemctl disable gateone.service >>>>> systemctl disable bonescript.service >>>>> systemctl disable bonescript.socket >>>>> systemctl disable bonescript-autorun.service >>>>> systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service >>>>> systemctl disable gdm.service >>>>> systemctl disable mpd.service >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Now we can use the beaglebone more like a headless linux machine. Last >>>>> time I played with it, apache was already installed (!) but running on an >>>>> alternate port. So lets fix that - open /etc/apache2/ports.conf and >>>>> change >>>>> this: >>>>> >>>>> NameVirtualHost *:8080 >>>>> Listen 8080 >>>>> >>>>> to this: >>>>> >>>>> NameVirtualHost *:80 >>>>> Listen 80 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Save it and restart apache: >>>>> >>>>> apachectl graceful >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Then you should see the "It works!" page by navigating to the >>>>> beaglebone's IP address. Apache runs just fine on the beaglebone - much >>>>> faster than the pentium II that I used to to learned linux on... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, June 7, 2014 12:07:15 AM UTC-5, Michael Thompson wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I flashed Debian to the eMMC and it seems to be working fine. My plan >>>>>> is to host a small web page using Apache. I installed Apache and using >>>>>> the >>>>>> IP address the BeagleBone 101 loads fine from outside my network. >>>>>> >>>>>> So, my question is, in what directory do I save my index.html file in >>>>>> order to see it as the default page served by Apache? There are no files >>>>>> in >>>>>> the /var/www/ directory so I am confused. On my Linux Mint (Debian >>>>>> edition) >>>>>> all I had to do was save my index file in the www directory. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone know where I am going wrong? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks!! >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> 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...@googlegroups.com. >>>> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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. 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