Beagle Board Begineer

In order to boot an image on beagle board, first I needed to download that image on a 2GB SD card. Some images are ready, all I need to do is write them on a SD Card. Some are not ready. For them, first I needed to install a partition table in that particular SD card in order to partition the SD card. Then, I needed to make one partition fat32 file system and the other ext3 file system. Then, I downloaded appropriate images on the appropriate partitions I made on the SD card. All I had to do is insert the SD card in beagle board and attach it to a linux pc using a serial cable in order to talk to the board. Some images require changing bootargs. I used minicom to talk to the board. Here are some useful sites, which will help in preparing an image in a SD card and also about tips to use minicom.

For discussions regarding beagle board:
1. http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard?lnk=srg
2. http://beagleboard.org/discuss

For information on creating SD card images:
1. http://www.sakoman.com/OMAP3/preparing-a-bootable-sd-card.html
2. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners

Using minicom
1. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/modem-minicom.html
2. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners

Recently Played Demo: I recently played nthcode player demo on beagleboard. I used a HD monitor to run this demo. I am trying to run this on a pico projector.

More information about nthcode player
1. http://www.nthcode.com/player/player.html
2. http://groups.google.com/group/nthcode-player-discussion?lnk=

More interesting images:
1. http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/3156ba8903dac3f4
2. http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/416792e2a7155c02
3.http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/84adc725e44e72fb

You can even find a list of interesting projects from beagle board contest:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/contest#Contest_projects

2/13/09

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