[beagleboard] USB: present serial port only?

Is there a way to configure things so that the USB port (P3) presents just a single ftdi-serial-port for console logins, and nothing else? (That is, no mass storage or JTAG or whatnot)? I want the Bone to appear to a connected computer as a serial terminal, and nothing else.

I did it; don't remember what I did, but removed all the nodejs, bonescript and mass-storage related packages (opkg remove ...) and fiddled with boot scripts/configurations (under /etc). It now only shows a serial port to my desktop PC.

The default Angstrom installation can be stripped to boot as low in as 7 seconds (power-on to login prompt on USB-serial, including ethernet configuration), but I think that a faster microSD could do even better. That "systemd" is stunning.

Is there a way to configure things so that the USB port (P3) presents
just a single ftdi-serial-port for console logins, and nothing else?
(That is, no mass storage or JTAG or whatnot)? I want the Bone to
appear to a connected computer as a serial terminal, and nothing else.

I did it; don't remember what I did, but removed all the nodejs,
bonescript and mass-storage related packages (opkg remove ...) and
fiddled with boot scripts/configurations (under /etc). It now only shows
a serial port to my desktop PC.

Hey, thanks, that's useful to know.

The default Angstrom installation can be stripped to boot as low in as 7
seconds (power-on to login prompt on USB-serial, including ethernet
configuration), but I think that a faster microSD could do even better.
That "systemd" is stunning.

Yes, the author of systemd (LP) received a lot of flak for it, but I think it works brilliantly...

- Mike