On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:58 PM, ivo welch <ivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > for other newbies, here is a summary of my flashing/updating experiences. > > debian is the recommend distribution now. (not ubuntu, not angstrom, not > others, even though they probably work, too.) > > the posted debian 7.5 standard releases are too finicky. I always got > something different and weird. half the time it would just access both, > half the time it would stop with all four LEDs black. sometimes it got > stuck at its hdmi conversation. once or twice, I got a red-letter screen > telling me that it was flashing, but it never got far. > > in contrast, when I tried the new console flasher release, debian 7.7 (the > one that has an md5sum of 1a70...), I had instant success on both rev B and > rev C boards. unlike the 7.5 releases, which had two partitions, this one > has only one. so, let me recommend 7.7 to anyone like me. > > here is a summary of the upgrading process. the information is already > spread in many different places, but here is a summary (again) for the > google cache: > > * on your linux laptop computer: download the img.xz file, check the > md5sum, use unxz on the image file, and dd bs=1M if=*.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 > (where /dev/mmcblk0 is the flash location on my notebook). the dd should > report that you copied about 1.8GB. on a $10 sdhc premium 32gb card (300x), > this takes about 90 seconds. then sync (just to make sure). then remove > and reinsert the disk to make sure that a linux partition shows up (it is > called rootfs and is an ext4). umount it cleanly. > * unpower your BBB. insert the sdhc. hold the button near the card > slot, and power up the BBB. > * the USB power supply on a dual-head USB cable is enough. > * the display is active during the flash and can be connected to see the > progress. it works, even if you only have USB power to the BBB. > * with a fast sdhc card, flashing the console image to the eMMC can take > as little as 5-15 minutes. > * during the flashing, the LEDs blink in a succinct pattern back and > forth. > * four solid LEDs means you succeeded. four black LEDs mean you failed. > on the HDMI console, it will state when it has halted. > * if you reboot, you should see a nice penguin at the top left of the > display. the boot should take about a minute. the default username > (debian) and password (temppwd) are displayed on the hdmi login screen. > > unlike the ubuntu images, the hdmi display output on this debian is > rock-solid. the USB "magic" (which makes the BBB claim to be a mass storage > device over USB and which runs a network over the same device, so that you > can even point your browser at 192.168.7.2) is not in the console images. > however, you do have a full computer with display output and keyboard > support now. if the tcp/ip ethernet cable network is connected during > reboot, it will come up. this means you can then run "apt-get upgrade" > and "apt-get update". > > when I figure out how to install and uninstall the usb magic (earlier > posts), I will try to add it to this post.
You can enable, the usb magic via: sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install udhcpc ; sudo reboot Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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.
