BeagleBone Progress (was Re: getting armed)

[Michael Zacherl.]

what I don't get: If Ångström is supposed to be the recommended(?)/official(?) distribution for Beaglestuff, why are you (apparently) the only one running into this trouble, or iow, had a hard time to find info how to fix this?
Michael. (still sick.)

On 16.2.2012, at 08:28 , Paul Maddox wrote:

> Finally found a build that worked ;
> 
> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu
> 
> then discovered I couldn't get an IP address, after much digging I found there's an issue with getting an IP address lease with 100M links - 
> http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/a84133aef678f1c9/f50f171efc954ce4?show_docid=f50f171efc954ce4
> 
> which lead me to a video of how to fix it -
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak30G-shiYY
> 
> and it works, it now boots, gets an IP address and I can SSH into it and start adding packages
> 
> I did;
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install man (there was no man pages)
> 
> and it's all working good, so I now have ubuntu 11.10 (headless) running on my BeagleBone.
> 
> A lot of messing around, but I think I've learned a lot about linux in the process.
> 
> Paul
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