{"id":144,"date":"2013-12-07T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-12-07T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:30:54","slug":"running-ubuntu-on-beaglebone-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Running Ubuntu on Beaglebone Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Replacing Angstrom with Ubuntu<\/h1>\n<p>I quite struggled with Angstrom :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>could not install most of needed perl modules<\/li>\n<li>could not get sftp to work<\/li>\n<li>lot of stuff I am not using running by default (and not sure how to remove it)<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not saying Angstr\u00f6m is not a good distro. It is good for discovery and just runs out of the box. It is jus a bit raw for me and I am not used to it.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to move to Ubuntu, a linux distribution I know a bit more and which has a wider supporting community.<\/p>\n<p>I found all required information to install Ubuntu here : <a href=\"http:\/\/elinux.org\/BeagleBoardUbuntu\">http:\/\/elinux.org\/BeagleBoardUbuntu<\/a>. If I do a short summary :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the eMMC Ubuntu image here\u00a0:\u00a0<a href=\"BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-13.04-2013-10-08.img.xz\">BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-13.04-2013-10-08.img.xz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Unzip it and dump it to an uSD card (2Gb is ok) using WinDiskImage on windows (or dd on linux)<\/li>\n<li>Insert SD card into the BBB<\/li>\n<li>Power it on<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the 4 leds to be solid (can be long, more that 30 minutes&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Remove power<\/li>\n<li>Remove SD card<\/li>\n<li>Power again : you&#8217;re running on Ubuntu !<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing Angstrom with Ubuntu I quite struggled with Angstrom : could not install most of needed perl modules could not get sftp to work lot of stuff I am not using running by default (and not sure how to remove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[45,46],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaglebone","tag-beaglebone-2","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}