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Aloha Doug, Dave,<br>
I really appreciate the feedback. It really helps me to get my brain
wrapped around the workings of this neat little box . You guys
always give great explanations that even a bonehead like me can
understand. It makes me want to learn more and that's a good thing.
I'm not afraid to jump in and it has allowed me the opportunity to
share this little box with others, some who know a lot more than I
do but who where not even aware that this project existed.<br>
<br>
I have 5 BBB's and big plans for them. 1 Rev B and the rest Rev C.
The Rev B is on a simplex node. I also succeeded in getting a Rev C
on my MTR2000 Repeater without too much grief and it works great.
These BBB's replaced some power sucking Dell Optiplex SX280's. (I
had a $400+ electric bill last month)<br>
<br>
I love the voice announcement feature and how easy it is to
generate them. Now if I can figure out how to make Allison pronounce
Hawaiian words, I'll be in fat city. Actually I went to Allison's
web page and she did some Hawaiian voices for Hawaiian Telcom. I'm
afraid she's going to want a pretty penny to add them to my sound
library though. But I digress! <br>
<br>
Big Mahalo from the Garden Isle<br>
<br>
Aloha Jim NH6HI<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/23/14 03:50, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" face="Tahoma">Jim,<br>
<br>
The short answer is you could but there really would be no
advantage in doing it and maybe some disadvantages. The
internal eMMC is nothing more than a permanant SD card. The
problem is if it goes bad you can't replace it. Once the BBB
boots it basically runs in RAM. It does reads when necessary
from the SD card but rarely does writes. Using the removable
SD card makes it very easy to have complete backups that can
be inserted in seconds. This would not be possible with the
internal eMMC. If you were out somewhere in a remote location
you would have to take a complete BBB written with the backup
instead of just an SD card to accomplish the restore. <br>
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So with that in mind I made the decision to not use the
internal eMMC. For the "C" version of the BBB you have a
perfectly good copy of Debian prei-nstalled in the eMMC that
we don't touch so if you should ever decide to use your BBB in
a different way you can just remove the SD card and it will
boot Debian.<br>
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The disadvantage is you need to pay an extra $10 for an SD
card but I find that a small price to pay for the flexibility.
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<b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font
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<div>> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:11:32 -1000<br>
> From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jim.pilgram@gmail.com">jim.pilgram@gmail.com</a><br>
> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] node building<br>
> <br>
> Dave, Doug,<br>
> Thanks for the reply. This leads me to a follow-up
question. I'm curious as to why you wouldn't/can't blow away
the mmc flash away and Just load the image there. I'm
guessing that it may not be large enough to handle it. <br>
> <br>
> Aloha <br>
> Jim<br>
> <br>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon
Wireless 4G LTE network.<br>
> Original Message <br>
> From: David McGough<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 17:07<br>
> To: BeagleBone Black ARM Allstar<br>
> Reply To: BeagleBone Black ARM Allstar<br>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] node building<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Hi Jim,<br>
> <br>
> All config info is currently only on the uSD card. The
mmc flash on the<br>
> BBB is not modified at all, by default. So, you can take
an existing,<br>
> working uSD card out of the BBB where it was setup and
plug it into a new<br>
> BBB and the new BBB will be functionally identical to the
old (and the old<br>
> BBB will then again boot the original firmware it came
with from the<br>
> manufacturer).<br>
> <br>
> 73, David KB4FXC<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, James R. Pilgram wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Aloha,<br>
> > Noob question! I was wondering if I have a working
BBB, Is the uSD card <br>
> > married to the BBB? Can I pull the uSD card and boot
it in a different <br>
> > BBB outside my network and not have to edit anything
except maybe the IP <br>
> > information depending if I set it up static or DHCP
and Port forwarding <br>
> > stuff. Does anything get written to the BBB or just
the uSD card? I'm<br>
> > looking to set up more repeater and simplex nodes
around the Island and <br>
> > wanted to do all the editing from the comfort of my
desk. Then when I <br>
> > get more BBB's I can pretty much plug and play.<br>
> > <br>
> > I did read<br>
> >
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/BBB-backup.pdf">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/BBB-backup.pdf</a><br>
> > Just wondering if the BBB cares where the uSD card
was originally <br>
> > configured.<br>
> > <br>
> > Jim NH6HI<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > <br>
> > arm-allstar mailing list<br>
> > <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
> >
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar">http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar</a><br>
> > <br>
> > Visit the BBB web page -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</a><br>
> > <br>
> <br>
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> <br>
> Visit the BBB web page -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</a><br>
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> <br>
> Visit the BBB web page -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</a><br>
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Visit the BBB web page - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</a></pre>
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