Running Ubuntu and then Flash Player on Beagle Board

Hello,

I have a Beagle Board C4 with that's currently running Angstrom from
what seems to be a bootable SD card.
I'm currently developing a Adobe Flash based interface that will
eventually run off the Beagle Board.
The problem is that i can't seem to find an Adobe Flash player that
will run on Angstrom so failing that I would like to install Ubuntu as
the OS and then the Adobe Flash player on the new OS.

As I understand installing Ubuntu on the Beagle Board is not a
straight forward process I was wondering if there is a tried and
tested step by step guide to do this somewhere.

Any help or advice would be great.

Thanks,

Steve :slight_smile:

Hello,

I have a Beagle Board C4 with that's currently running Angstrom from
what seems to be a bootable SD card.
I'm currently developing a Adobe Flash based interface that will
eventually run off the Beagle Board.
The problem is that i can't seem to find an Adobe Flash player that
will run on Angstrom so failing that I would like to install Ubuntu as
the OS and then the Adobe Flash player on the new OS.

Did you try this on angstrom?
http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/adobeflash-a8.html

As I understand installing Ubuntu on the Beagle Board is not a
straight forward process I was wondering if there is a tried and
tested step by step guide to do this somewhere.

Can you provide some details why you think it's not a straight forward
process? It might help out future users..

Run the script from here on your sd card and then boot:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Demo_Image

Regards,

Hi,

I've been trying to register with the Texas Instruments site but there
is a problem at the moment.
I'm hoping that this player will suffice however the project I'm
developing needs a standalone player as opposed
to running within a browser.

Also I should explain that this is the very first time I have dabbled
in Linux and I'm new to
developing in general, so in a sense the learning curve is pretty
steep and daunting from my perspective.
However once I'm up and running I'll do a up step by step guide for
the guy that knows nothing (like me).

Thanks for the link I will attempt to install Ubuntu over the next few
days.

Best regards,

Steve

What is the problem with the default Angstrom installation? It contains flash player in both Midori and Firefox. The player is deathly slow but it exists anyway

2010/11/5 Skryne <oneillstephen@gmail.com>

Hi,

I think I'm really doing something wrong but I have no idea where.
I am not very technical so it is very easy for me to get stuck and
that's
exactly what has happened.

I'll go through the step by step process and if some body could point
out where
I am going wrong it would really help.

1. Linked to site containing instructions for installation of Ubuntu
on Beagleboard.
    http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Demo_Image

2. In the "Get prebuilt image:" section I downloaded the first link.
    wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/maverick/ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel.tar.7z

3. I then got hold of an app called md5sums.exe and installed it on my
PC.

4. I dragged the downloaded file on the md5sums.exe icon and it went
through it's process.
    No errors were detected.

5. Using 7-Zip I extracted the file. This created a file called the
following...
    ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel.tar

6. I then extracted the "ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel.tar" file again
creating the following folder...
    ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel

7. Inside that folder there is another folder called "ubuntu-10.10-r1-
minimal-armel"

8. Inside that folder there is the following files.
    armel-rootfs-201010192207.tar
    initrd.img-2.6.35.7-l6
    setup_sdcard.sh
    vmlinuz-2.6.35.7-l6

9. This is where my ignorance really comes into its own.
    Because in the "Unpack Image:" section in the instructions it
refers to the following...
    7za x ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel.tar.7z
    tar xf ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel.tar
    cd ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel

    None of which I can see.

10. The final step in the instructions refer to "Install Image:" and a
quick install script "Quick Install script for Beagle Bx, C2/C3/C4, xM
A2/A3"
      With a reference to the following...
      ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle

As you can see I really have no clue where I am going wrong and have
spent the past few days chasing my tail. If someone could
please explain where I would be very grateful. Also please assume I
know nothing because I really do know nothing.

Thanks,

Steve :slight_smile:

Hi Steve,

I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like your using windows, by using
"md5sums.exe". Unfortunately i have no plans to add windows support
to the said scripts on http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

Your welcome to add windows support, but I have no plans to support
that configuration..

Regards,

Sorry I should have said that I was working on Windows.
Will running the scripts run properly if I install Ubuntu on my PC?

Thanks

Steve

Hi

I am now attempting the procedure using Ubuntu running on my MAC using
Parallels.
Everything seems to be going fine until it comes to the last command.

"./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle"

Once I have typed this into the Terminal window I get the following
error...

the X in sdX is a variable
in your case it looks like X=d

i'm just a linux guy and haven't received my BB so i could be wrong

Hi

I am now attempting the procedure using Ubuntu running on my MAC using
Parallels.
Everything seems to be going fine until it comes to the last command.

"./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle"

Once I have typed this into the Terminal window I get the following
error...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
skryne@skryne-laptop:~/Downloads/ubuntu-10.10-r1-minimal-armel$ ./
setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle

Please read what the script is telling you.. "/dev/sdX" is just an
example where "X" is unknown since it depends on each and every
machine..

Are you sure? I Don't see [/dev/sdX], here is what I do see...

sudo sfdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 8354 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Disk /dev/sdd: 15193 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track

mount:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdd2 on /media/rootfs type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sdd1 on /media/BOOT type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)

Based on that output, i'd use this for your machine:

"./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdd --uboot beagle"

Since "/dev/sda" is your ubuntu x86 root drive and "/dev/sdd" is your
usb/mmc adapter..

Regards,

If you really want to reformat it, you may possibly have to do the following before setup_sdrcard.sh is run, unless you get a message asking for confirmation that you really want to do that.
# umount /media/BOOT /media/rootfs
Regards
Sid.

use sdd instead of sdX, see the output of fsdisk -l in your email, where sda is your hard disk.

roman

If you really want to reformat it, you may possibly have to do the following
before setup_sdrcard.sh is run, unless you get a message asking for
confirmation that you really want to do that.
# umount /media/BOOT /media/rootfs
Regards
Sid.

That script actually doesn't really care how you've previously
formated the sd card, as it unmounts every partition mounted with that
device id "/dev/sdXY" and then blows away the partition table, before
creating a new table and partitions..

Regards,