BBB on SD

This will document my attempt at installing and running RCN's Debian image from a MicroSD card (not a flasher, as described here).

Install

Grab the latest image from here.

Following these directions and adapting for a 16GB card.

DD a blank image that's slightly smaller than the SD. We'll copy RCN's image to this.

[~]$ sudo dd bs=1M count=14400 if=/dev/zero of=bone.img
[sudo] password for daniel: 
14400+0 records in
14400+0 records out
15099494400 bytes (15 GB) copied, 116.802 s, 129 MB/s

Mount it as a loopback device:

[~]$ sudo losetup -f --show bone.img
/dev/loop0

Mount RCN's image:

[~dl]$ sudo losetup -f --show bone-debian-7.4-2014-02-16-2gb.img
/dev/loop1

Copy RCN's image to the blank image we created:

[~dl]$ sudo dd if=/dev/loop1 of=/dev/loop0
340563+0 records in
340563+0 records out
174368256 bytes (174 MB) copied, 11.2203 s, 15.5 MB/s

Running fdisk -l against our newly copied image, I see this:

[~dl]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/loop0                                                                     2:15:52

Disk /dev/loop0: 15.1 GB, 15099494400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1835 cylinders, total 29491200 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/loop0p1   *        2048      198655       98304    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/loop0p2          198656     3481599     1641472   83  Linux

Grow the primary partition:

[~dl]$ sudo parted /dev/loop0                                                                       2:15:52
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/loop0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: Loopback device (loop)
Disk /dev/loop0: 15.1GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  102MB   101MB   primary  fat16        boot, lba
 2      102MB   1783MB  1681MB  primary  ext4

(parted) rm 2
(parted) mkpart primary 102 15000
(parted) print                                                            
Model: Loopback device (loop)
Disk /dev/loop0: 15.1GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  102MB   101MB   primary  fat16        boot, lba
 2      102MB   15.0GB  14.9GB  primary  ext4

We now need to resize the filesystem on the partition we just grew.

TODO finish