BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists

Chapter 1. Setting Up for the First Time

In this chapter, we will focus on the following topics:

• First boot up
• Power requirements – basic guidelines
• Display
• Essential GNU/Linux commands – the command shell
• Essential GNU/Linux commands – typical commands
• Edit a text file from the command shell
• Connectivity
• Package management – Installing packages using apt-get
• SSH / Remote access
• System images

Introduction

Getting off to a running start with your BeagleBone Black requires diving into a number of fundamental recipes first. After all, you have to learn to chop and dice before making a proper soup.

As you probably already know, creating the right development environment saves time, reduces errors, and creates a good workflow. To this end, after we get our display ...