Hello, There is actually some sound advice in the long list of items answered from the person Mr. Bieber.
... Besides that, what I read that I understood from what he typed was this: On your eMMC, you will need a copy of the flasher image from this site: https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-9.2-iot-armhf-2017-10-10-4gb.img.xz. This file will download directly from bbb.io/latest-images but you need the flasher and not the SD Card so it can be put on your eMMC instead of just being on your SD Card. ... So, this is what I understand. The booting of the BBB can be done in many ways. Okay. So, w/ this in mind, you need the S2 button to be pressed to bypass, when booting, the old bootloader, image, and kernel on the BBB. So, hold down the S2 button before applying power. While you are holding the S2 button while the board is powering, keep holding it until all LEDs are lit up. Seth P.S. Like Mr. Bieber said, this is not a Stretch image for MachineKit. Once you bypass the old info. on your eMMC w/ the S2 button, try to update and upgrade things. Please reply service when you have time. On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 1:49:16 PM UTC-5, Sardar Vayghannezgad wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your reply. What I end up seeing on puTTY after typing > sudo apt-get install [no matter what!]" is the following: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package xfce4 > the last line, actually. And like I said in the original post, this > happens still when I can ping to google. To the best of my knowledge if you > can ping to google, you are connected, right?! And thus you must be able to > download, but I am not. I'm coming to the conclusion that this primarily > has something to do with BBB driver not appearing on my device manager, > despite thatI have installed the drivers from BeagleBoard/getting-started. > > On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:19:27 PM UTC+3, Mala Dies wrote: >> >> Oh and Sir, >> >> You might want to try, b/c the typing on the X client is showing >> incorrect values, XFCE for your desktop client. I found that this works at >> times, too. Here: https://www.xfce.org/. If I am not mistaken, you can >> just use "sudo apt install xfce4." >> >> Seth >> >> P.S. I need to double check the apt install xfce4 cmd but I think that is >> it. I will keep looking around for other info. I have been waiting to get >> into this idea, the Machine Kit stuff, but I have been unable to find time. >> I will reply soon. >> >> On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 1:16:50 AM UTC-5, Sardar Vayghannezgad >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I have been struggling for the past ten days, as a brand new user, to >>> get my Beaglebone Black rec C (element 14) to run Machinekit on my Win 8.1 >>> PC. To save you the long story, I am totally lost. What I've been able to >>> learn during my time playing with all the software and hardware around >>> me from forums, blogs, sites, personal intuition, etc comes down to: >>> >>> - successfully flashing an image on a microSD card and then transfer >>> them on to the BB-Black, so that it can run without the flash card >>> inside, >>> - connecting BBB to my PC via puTTY and to the internet (albeit, >>> apparently Google only, as I cannot have puTTy download any packages) >>> >>> Since I am desperately looking for some dummies pointers on the issues I >>> have, I'm giving all the software/hardware coordinates I think are >>> important: >>> >>> The image I'm using is from here >>> <https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit> >>> >>> My Questions are: >>> >>> 1. BBB does show up on my PC with the default image >>> <https://beagleboard.org/latest-images> it comes out with, and I can >>> go through the instructions available on Beagleboard/getting started >>> webpage <https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2>, but once I >>> replace it with another Image >>> >>> <https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit>, >>> >>> it doesn't seem to appear as a drive on my PC nor anywhere on the Device >>> Manager. However, I can putty it to my PC, and share my PC WiFi with it. >>> Given that I have installed the required drivers from BBoard Getting >>> Started <https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2>, Is this >>> normal?!! If not, What is it that causes this? (I have searched high and >>> low online, but haven't come up with a concrete conclusion) >>> 2. I can use my PC WiFi to connect BBB to the Google per online >>> instructions, yet any attempt, via puTTY, to download Machinekit >>> Packages >>> >>> <http://www.machinekit.io/docs/getting-started/install-runtime-packages/> >>> (Just >>> in case, is the link right for my case?!!) from the related website >>> leads >>> in the error: >>> >>> machinekit@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install machinekit-xenomai >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree >>> Reading state information... Done >>> E: Unable to locate package machinekit-xenomai >>> >>> >>> or >>> machinekit@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install machinekit-posix >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree >>> Reading state information... Done >>> E: Unable to locate package machinekit-posix >>> >>> 3. I have downloaded the Machinekit Client on my PC. What >>> else do I need? I can see online that I need download tightVNC viewer both >>> on my PC and on the BBB via puTTY. right? Provided that I can do so, do I >>> need to download a VCP (Visual Control Panel) like QtQuickVcp to use in >>> conjunction with Machinekit? Should I install this on my PC or BBB or >>> both?!!! >>> >>> 4. My keyboard is misspelling on ThightVNC window. How can I >>> fix this? >>> >>> Any help, however small, would be appreciated. >>> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/810106a9-69ea-4864-b941-45acafa6e031%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
