Re: Running ADA on Beaglebone Black

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 12:56:35 -0700 (PDT), Ricardo Brandão
<rbrandao.br@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>Hi Dmitry
> 
>> What distribution? 
>
>The distro that came with the board, in the case Debian Jessie
>

	<OUCH> That is ancient... Superceded by Stretch and Buster

	I'd really recommend obtaining an uSD card, downloading a recent image
(won't have X-Window system), writing the image to the SD card, and
verifying the card will boot (depending on how old the existing u-boot is,
you may need to hold down the boot select button when applying power).

	After confirming the SD card is bootable (and maybe installing GNAT, et
al.), convert the card to a flasher image (typically uncomment the last
line in /boot/uEnv.txt) and reboot. Make sure you have a 5V supply in the
barrel connector -- USB power is not guaranteed to support a full eMMC
flashing operation.

	After flashing, remove the SD card (if you leave it in and reboot it
will repeat the flashing operation), and reboot -- the eMMC should now have
Debian Buster on it. To use the SD card without rewriting the image you
need to mount it into a running system, navigate to the card's
/boot/uEnv.txt, and recomment the last line.


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