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Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone

By : William Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer
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Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone

By: William Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer

Overview of this book

If you are a developer with BeagleBone experience and want to learn how to use it to set up a network and file server, then this book is ideal for you. To make the most of this book, you should be comfortable with the Linux operating system and know how to install software from the Internet, but you do not have to be a network guru.

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Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone
William Pretty | Glenn Vander Veer
May, 2015 | 110 pages
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Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black
1. Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black
Setting up to install Debian
Installing Tightvnc
Running the Cloud9 IDE
Summary
2
2. Installing and Configuring Multimedia Server Software
2. Installing and Configuring Multimedia Server Software
Setting up a static IP on the BeagleBone
Starting the VNC server
Installing and configuring Samba
Installing the DLNA server
Summary
3
3. Installing and Configuring Network Monitoring Software
3. Installing and Configuring Network Monitoring Software
Installing Traceroute
Installing Nmap
Installing iptraf-ng
Summary
4
4. Installing and Setting Up a BeagleBone RAID System
4. Installing and Setting Up a BeagleBone RAID System
Determining the available partitions
Preparing the partitions with fdisk
Installing Mdadm
Preparing the RAID set
Summary
5
5. Streaming Videos
5. Streaming Videos
Installing MySQL5
Installing Lighttpd
Disabling Cloud9 services
Installing PHP5
Creating your own home page
Configuring a streaming video
Summary
6
6. Setting Up a Wireless Access Point
6. Setting Up a Wireless Access Point
Installing hostapd
Installing DHCP
The hardware
Summary
7
Index
Index

Chapter 1. Installing Debian onto Your BeagleBone Black

In this chapter, you will learn how to install Debian onto your BeagleBone. There are two ways to boot the BeagleBone and run the OS: the first way is to run off the microSD card, and the second is to run off the internal eMMC (flash). BeagleBone has 4 GB of onboard flash, which is not expandable. It is recommended that the microSD be used so that there is ample room left for you to install other programs that will be needed later in the book, and this is what will be shown in this chapter. In order to install the OS, you require a microSD card (an 8 GB card will be fine), an SD card reader (which most laptops have built-in), and the Windows program Win32 DiskImager. This program will write the actual OS image to the SD card, which the BeagleBone will boot from. An archival program, such as WinRAR or 7-Zip, is also needed to extract the OS image from the downloaded archive.

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