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Setting up Beaglebone
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Setting up the Beagle Bone from Scratch

Install Debian.

  • Get latest Debian (8.4) from BeagleBone latest images.
  • Flash the .img onto the SDCard using dd if=bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=64m
  • Restart the BB and connect over USB. It should as USB Mass Storage
  • Install the RNDIS drivers from the mounted USB Mass Storage.
  • If you are on OSX El Capitan, you might need to use this RNDIS driver
  • Restart the Host machine and BB and it will enumerate as a Network interface.
  • SSH to the BB using ssh [email protected]
  • Connect the BB to a network using an Ethernet cable.
  • Expand the microSD Card using fdisk /dev/mmcblk0. Detailed Instructions
  • Removed unneeded packages with sudo apt-get remove lightdm nodejs ruby apache2 chromium-browser xorg && sudo apt-get autoremove
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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