Gnome based SD Disk

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I have used the instructions on this site to make a gnome gui based
boot SD card and it seems to work. Has a nice collection of
applications in the build.

The first boot is a long time, it took over an hour and a half, but
it does keep sending messages out the serial port while it does that
first boot, but nothing is seen on the DVI screen until it finishes
the first boot configuration.

http://www.sakoman.com/category/7-gnome-daily-builds-r12.html

Carl

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If you use http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/Angstrom-Beagleboard-demo-image-glibc-ipk-2011.1-beagleboard.rootfs.tar.bz2 it will boot a whole lot faster and include DSP codecs for gstreamer.

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If it took an hour and a half, that is a pretty good indication that
your SD card is not one of the better performing brands! The best
brands take 20 - 30 minutes:

http://www.sakoman.com/OMAP/microsd-card-perfomance-test-results.html

Steve