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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.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

What you need for this book

The following is a list of the suggested hardware for those of you who wish to build the entire system described in this book. Additional information has been outlined in the applicable chapters.

  • Two identical USB 2 memory sticks: These should be at least 2 GB in size. The actual size depends on the amount of multimedia data you intend to store.
  • A Beagle Bone compatible USB 2 WiFi adapter: There is a list of compatible adapters available at www.beaglebone.org.
  • A four-port USB 2 hub: Depending on the output power of your WiFi adapter, a powered hub may be required.
  • An 8 GB, series 10, uSD card: This is used to boot the root file system.
  • Win32DiskImager: This is available with a search engine search. This will install the Debian image onto the uSD card.

Two memory sticks from the same manufacturer and same model number.