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creation date: 2024-08-20
modification date: Tuesday 20th August 2024 14:15:38
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# Preamble
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## What are we doing?
Documenting start up and set up with the BeagleBone
## Why are we doing it?
Fun. To win a Nobel Prize. 
But seriously, Luis seemed to have a lot of trouble setting up the BeagleBone black the first time around, and even then was only ever really able to get things going when he had it connected via HDMI with its own keyboard and mouse.
## Who cares?
Whomever has to set up a BeagleBone next.

# BeagleBone Set Up Log
## First Steps
1. I did what the manual said. After opening up the BeagleBone, I connected it to my computer using USB cable. It fired up and started blinking. It says to look for a new storage device...
2. There it is! BEAGLEBONE! Started up START.HTM
## 'Getting Started' Document
### Step 0: Update to the Latest Firmware
1. Flashing looks like a pain in the ass. 
2. I'm going to skip updating and see what version it's on. If it becomes a problem we'll update. 
### Step 1: Power and Boot
1. I have booted
2. So the beaglebone sets up several networks. Two of them are wired.
	1. 192.168.7.2
	2. 192.168.6.2
3. Supposed to able to go to http://192.168.7.2 to see the bb 101 presentation but I do not see that. I see some Cloud 9 junk.
4. It's telling me to update the bone. Oh well, here we go:
### Step 0: Bad to the Bone update edition
1. My cat is violently trying to get into my office. She wants to play with the BeagleBone. 
2. I downloaded the most recent IoT image. AM335x 11.7 2023-09-02. I'm pretty nice w the CLI so might as well.
3. I'm using disk restore instead of BalenaEtcher to write the image to the SD card. It may not work.
4. It did not I don't think. No more cloud9 starting up...
5. I got balenaEtcher going. So it turns out you download the .zip and run the executable from there. This is nice, so I can delete the whole thing afterwards.
6. Started up the BB. Shows up in file tree...
7. Just a file index page on 192.168.7.2. Trying a different image... This time Debian 9.9 2019-08-03 4gb sd lxqt
8. So this worked. But it's still telling me to upgrade..?
9. Third time is the charm. AM335x Debian 11.7 2023-08-05 4GB eMMC IoT Flasher
10. I think it worked? I loaded the sd card and let it spin up. Lights started blinking in a cylon pattern (back and forth) for a while and then it shutdown. Removed the SD card and it booted up.
11. Connect through ssh :)