Where can I obtain an image to put on a 32gb micro sd card to then insert into my BBB and have it boot off of the micro sd card? (And the instructions to go with it?). Having my BBB recognize the 32gb card as external storage has become such a big problem/issue, that at this point I just want to boot off the card in order to use the 32gb of file space it affords. All I find on the internet are confusing instructions which tend to mix files used to flash the emmc with instructions to boot off a micro-sd card.
Copy any of the 8GB images to the uSD and then resize the disk to 32GB.
There are plenty of instructions 
“No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmond Burke (1729 - 1797)
http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
You said you couldn’t add the microSD card - did you follow the instructions at: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:MicroSD_As_Extra_Storage
Actually, you can format the microSD card on another machine (I used windows xp). Then put the uEnv.txt file in partition 0. I you just formated the 32GB as one partion, then just copy the uEnv.txt file. See the above webpage for the contents of the uEnv.txt file.
I somehow figured out how to get my micro sd card to be ‘sda1’. I added some text to it
“mmcdev=1
bootpart=1:2
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro
optargs=quiet”
And named it uEnv.txt
(on the card itself)
Now my BBB sees it as sda1. I was able to mount it to /media by making a directory under it and then mounted it.
Question: How do I now use this mounted sda1? I tried ftp upload to it but I get permission denied.
You need to change the “permissions”
chmod 777 /dev/sda1
or
chmod 777 /media/mydiskname
“No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmond Burke (1729 - 1797)
http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
Check your mount options.
chmod 777 is bad advice. Figure out the real issue and solve the problem.
I dont think sd card permissions you can change using chmod
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rw you can try
I was able to use my micro sd card as an external hard drive.
I first did what was recommended on this series of posts, I added:
mmcdev=1
bootpart=1:2
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro
optargs=quiet
chmod 777 is bad advice. Figure out the real issue and solve the problem.
I agree.
Jose, look into the command chown
Ah, never mind seems you want to mount the whole 32GB as /var/www ?