Before booting the BeagleBone Black for the first time, you may want to snap an image of the unbooted the Angstrom load from NVRAM in its virgin state for future reference. To do this, we need a microSD card to…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Expanding Linux Partitions: Part 1 of 2
When installing Linux by unpacking .tar files into empty boot and root file system partitions, you get to decide how the partitions will lay out. When extracting Linux from a raw image file, the partition table is already defined and…
Node.js for the BeagleBone Black
To run node.js on the BeagleBone, it needs to be compiled from scratch or you can install a precompiled distribution available on the downloads page. While it seems to be more common to cross-compile for the ARM, I find it…