Derek Molloy had a how-to on using a USB camera video streaming. It is based on Angstrom. That is why I was trying to install Angstrom. I am afraid my Linux abilities are not strong enough to translate his tutorial to Debian. Is there a more up to date Angstrom install? That is what I thought I was doing. Any suggestions? Rick Harms
On Sunday, November 30, 2014 1:27:11 PM UTC-8, Rick Harms wrote: > > Thank you. > That did it. I now have a working BeagleBone. > Rick Harms > > On Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:17:07 AM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 30, 2014 11:56 AM, "Rick Harms" <rickd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I have a new Ver C board. I went through the getting started >> scenario. I have 30 years computer support, but I am a newbie to the >> Beaglebone. >> > >> > I was able to log in just fine, life is sweet. Time to upgrade the >> OS. I read thoroughly the upgrade process. I read several "versions, the >> Beagleboard.org version, Adafruit version, and a couple of others, Of >> course, they were all the same. I chose the >> "BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.09.04.img.xz". I followed the Windows version, >> created the SD image and inserted it in the board. I followed the boot >> process, the four Leds came on, released the "boot" button. The LEDs >> flashed for a few seconds, went out, the all four came on for a couple of >> seconds, flashed for a couple of seconds, then the board powered down. >> Uh-oh, not right. Sure enough, the OS is hosed. I then inserted the SD >> card in my Windows machine. The 16 GB card came up as 68 MB free out of 70 >> MB available. ???????? I then did trouble shooting for the next 8 hours. >> I got to the point that I was able to reformat the SD card in a few >> seconds, it then showed 16 GB again. I tested the card by copying several >> Gigs of files to the Card, it is OK. I went through the installation >> process a couple of dozen times, the same results each time. I decided >> there must be something wrong with the image. So, I switched to the >> "Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-GNOME_eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-beaglebone-2013.06.20.img" >> (whew!). This time the SD came up as 2MB free out of 70MB. >> ()(*&)(&)_))&*__& I tried it anyway. As this is being posted, the >> installation has been going for 3 hours. The USB LED D3 is continuous >> flashing and LED D5 flashes twice, every 2 seconds. I will give it a >> couple of more hours, probably a waste of time, and then see if it will >> boot. I suspect not. >> > So, did I do something wrong? I do not know what other information to >> provide. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. >> > Rick Harms >> >> Those images are legacy and 'really' not supported see, for upgrade over >> what was shipped with your board. >> >> >> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
