Tuesday 16 December 2014

BeagleBone Black Debian image initial steps



This article details initial steps of a BeagleBone Black with a Debian image. For this setup I am using a 5V adapter for power and connecting the Ethernet port to my local LAN.

  • With power and Ethernet connected the BeagleBone is set to automatically run DHCP. You can ping the hostname of 'beaglebone' to show the connectivity

$ ping beaglebone
PING beaglebone.lan (192.168.1.155) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from beaglebone.lan (192.168.1.155): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.964 ms
64 bytes from beaglebone.lan (192.168.1.155): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.630 ms

  • Next ssh as root (there is no password set)


  • Set a password for root :

# passwd

  • Update to the latest builds

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

  • Set the correct Timezone
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

  • Confirm correct date

# date

  • Check that the web server is listening on port 80

# netstat -an | grep -i 80
tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN

  • In a web browser (not IE) open the IP address of your Beaglebone to display the default page
  • Enjoy your Beaglebone!

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