I am running Debian on my BBB and have a bootable 8G SD card but ran out of memory - I think it is because I did not partition or mount the card and when I burned the Debian image on the card, it was downgraded in memory. I am a real newbie!
I found these comments from 2013 and I am not sure this is still the way to go 3 years later. Can anyone confirm?
I am trying to find the easiest way of doing this. I’ve tried burning the image on to a 32G SD card but when I did the size of the SD card goes to the size of the image I burned in. I am confused on the process to create a bootable SD card with lots of storage for my other software.
your help will be greatly appreciated.
Lidia
| Vijay Vaidyanathan |
5/12/13
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Shae … I’m suddenly feeling very foolish. I just realized that although the BBB doesn’t recognize when a card is inserted into the on-board sdcard reader, it does have a USB port. So here is a very much simpler way to do what you want. I just tried it and it worked fine.
- Boot your BBB as normal
- Attach a USB microsdcard reader to the USB (using the normal USB Host connector, not the micro-usb you use to hook up to the computer). These are cheap and easily available … I see them at my local Frys for less than ten bucks from time to time.
- Insert your microsd card into the USB reader. It should be recognized on the BBB, usually as /dev/sda
- Make sure it is /dev/sda by doing: “fdisk -l” … I’ll assume its /dev/sda here, but you should use whatever you see on your system to make sure you arent overwriting the wrong thing
- Copy the eMMC contents over to the sdcard like so:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/sda bs=10M - You’re done. This will be a bootable card, and the rest of the space is unused. You can use fdisk+mkfs to get it to look like you want.
- Unplug the sdcard from the reeader and plug it into the other end (sd reader built in to the BBB) and it should boot just fine.
I’m feeling a lot better about this now … I wish I had thought about the sdcard reader+usb sometime ago instead of messing with all those Mac commands!
- VV
