I saw that beagleboard.org personnel was trying to set up Armbian for support in the community. I wanted to try to see how far I could get and if I could get network via USB sharing done alongside Armbian/Debian Trixie/Linux.
So, my adventure starts with downloading the rolling release from the Armbian website onto the Debian Trixie OS machine I have for development.
I used a USB C to USB 3.0 cable for connecting the Pocket Beagle 2 to the Trixie OS machine. Both run Linux, i.e. the PB2 and the machine for development. So, I flashed the image via bb-imager-rs, which can be found here (https://github.com/beagleboard/bb-imager-rs), from the Armbian website under the header Pocket Beagle 2.
I was skeptical at first, i.e. as I have had difficulty with Armbian and beagleboard.org boards in the past while trying to set up support for a BeagleV-Ahead board. I was just too inexperienced at the time to handle the set up I guess.
Anyway, so. I took out the micro SD Card from the writer and put the micro SD Card in the Pocket Beagle 2. I plugged it in. Then, nothing. I was using a USB C to USB C with a Linux OS machine that was not receptive to USB C to USB C cables.
So, I tried the USB C to USB A 3.0 cable. Boom! It works. The board was showing signs of life and via its intricate array of LED movements.
So, I tried to ssh into the board. No go. I used this command to get further into setting up commands for later down the road.
sudo apt install tioThen...it was as easy as:
tio /dev/ttyACM0I was quickly instructed to install a root password and username and user password.
Now, I have not configured the USB Sharing of Internet yet but will rekindle this post when everything is set up and working. Anyway, I hope you can see that booting boards keeps getting easier when the correct developmental operations have been done previously.
So far, I have tried to install Home Assistant and Git but without success due to not being able to set up network sharing with ssh.
Seth
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