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Re: Beaglebone Black - best way to install Jessie?



On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater
<amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Sorry for cross post to two lists but this seems to cross both.
>
> I've a Beaglebone Black running Debian 7.6 with some wheezy-backports packages. This is installed on both the internal eMMC flash and
> also 7.6 installed on the SD card.
>
> What's the best way to get a fresh Jessie onto this. I can update from the Internet so could change sources.list and update that way.
> Alternatively, I could use the latest installer if this is appropriate.
>
> Advice gratefully received.

Well with all the work that Vagrant has done.

You will be able to use the debian-installer for "jessie", out of the box*

https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2014/20140813

The only gotcha, you'll need to update the eMMC bootloader, grab the
console/flasher from here:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2014-08-19

At some point factory production will switch to one of our later test
images listed there.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/


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