Ubuntu image file for BeagleBone White?

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I cannot seem to follow the directions here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

I have Ubuntu installed on a VirtualBox and I can’t see the SD card at all from there. I have the USB Vbox extensions installed too. Is there a .img file for the BeagleBoard white like there is for Angstrom? I am having a very hard time finding this information!

My end goal is to gain access to I2C driver, which as I understand is not available in the Angstrom Linux? I think that I need apt-get available in Ubuntu? I am trying to follow the instructions here, which uses a BeagleBone White running Ubuntu: http://derekmolloy.ie/beaglebone/beaglebone-an-i2c-tutorial-interfacing-to-a-bma180-accelerometer/

So I know that it can be done, but I will have to boot a true Linux distro to follow these instructions…hmmm maybe a live image will do?

Thanks, David.

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As long as you have enough ram, you could just boot an ubuntu/debian
livecd, then also dl/run the sd card creating script..

You could also use the beaglebone black flasher image, just make sure
to drop the "flash-eMMC.txt" file in the boot partition and resize the
root partition to the full size of the drive..

Regards,

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I am still having a hard time following the instructions. Was I supposed to run the build_kernel.sh first, then unzip and run the setup_sdcard.sh script? It looked like that part was for “Advanced users only” which definitely is not me (yet.) I only did the second part of unzipping the ubuntu tar.gz file and I got no blinking lights on my BeagleBone. I saw popups from Linux GUI (live CD) that rootfs and boot don’t exist. So that kind of makes sense now that I have rebooted my PC back into Win7 :frowning: But the setup_sdcard.sh script did not throw any errors??

Also, what does this mean:

Active on Boot Script:

  • Disable by removing “run_boot-scripts” from small boot partition…*

How do I find such a thing, and why would I want to do it?

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I am still having a hard time following the instructions. Was I supposed to
run the build_kernel.sh first, then unzip and run the setup_sdcard.sh
script? It looked like that part was for "Advanced users only" which
definitely is not me (yet.) I only did the second part of unzipping the
ubuntu tar.gz file and I got no blinking lights on my BeagleBone. I saw
popups from Linux GUI (live CD) that rootfs and boot don't exist. So that
kind of makes sense now that I have rebooted my PC back into Win7 :frowning: But
the setup_sdcard.sh script did not throw any errors??

Are you "building" your own kernel/image? That's what
"./build_kernel.sh" etc is for..

If you just want to run a pre-built ready to go image..

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Raring_13.04_armhf

and follow the setup_sdcard.sh instructions..

Also, what does this mean:

Active on Boot Script:

Disable by removing "run_boot-scripts" from small boot partition...*

How do I find such a thing, and why would I want to do it?

It's a 'file' on the boot partition, which does things like, enable
the musb slave and enables an ethernet over usb connection, sets the
clock to a date within a month vs 1970, etc..

Regards,