I can tell you that DR Molloy's video while slightly outdated for the BBB works fine. I set this up myself using Lubuntu 14.10, and the cross gcc tools from the APT repo's "just work". However, having had many years of experience with Debian, and a few ( off and on ) with Ubuntu, and usually end up getting bitten by Ubuntu in the long run.
I think i can offer you better advice though. Instead of dual booting, perhaps get, install, use virtualbox, until you figure things out for yourself. This is to say, play with ubuntu in a virtual machine, until you're comfortable enough to make this call on your own. In this scenario, you could also instal Debian command line only in a virtual machine. I did this for about a year myself, until getting a busted eeepc, which i promptly fixed well enough to work as a headless debian development workstation. Prior to that, I also used a dual boot setup, but was Win7 x64 and Debian 7 i386. I found this inconvenient though, and wound up just using a virtual machine. On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Tom Olenik <tole...@hotmail.com> wrote: > So if seems like Debian is the more popular choice for distributions on > the BBB, but it seems like I might like Ubuntu better on the PC. I want to > set up Linux for dual boot on my Windows 7 machine for purposes of > developing for the BBB. My question is will I run into many problems > developing for Debian on the BBB if I install Ubuntu on the PC? Any good or > bad experiences one way or the other? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
