Beaglebone Black Ubuntu 12.04+ GUI - anyone got it to work?

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Hi there,

i’m pretty new to Beaglebone and Linux and i just succeeded in creating a bootable microSD card with Ubuntu 13.04 and installing ubuntu-desktop (after “sudo apt-get update” and “sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop”), but after rebooting the first time i got application errors like the time&date application crashing and after rebooting it freezes after the login.

I’m gonna try again with 12.04LT but the partition that created is too small to install the Desktop and i probably need to resize that. Has anyone got this to work on their Beaglebone?

Thank you.

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The instructions at http://circuitco.com/support/BeagleBoneBlack, the URL on that little white card that came in the box with the board, works pretty well. You might try that.

Gerald

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http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Desktops_On_Ubuntu/Debian#Ubuntu_Precise_On_A_microSD_With_Ubuntu_Desktop

Follow the directions under Ubuntu Precise on that page. I can confirm that it works with Ubuntu Desktop. There is also a link to instrucitons on how to re-partition your micro SD on that page if that’s all you need.