Linux installation

This page is dedicated to the installation of a Linux distribution on the board.

The BBB board has both embedded eMMC memory has well as a microSD card port.

Installing a pre-built image on a microSD card

The Beagleboard website has a page listing supported Linux images. Fetch the Debian 10.3 SD IoT image. It may not be the most up-to-date distribution, but it will suffice for our purposes.

You simply need to flash the downloaded file onto a microSD card, for example using Balena Etcher.

For future reference, the default login:password is debian:temppwd.