linux

Tips and Tricks For New Science Students

Jamie and I had lunch last week with Greg Wilson, who has done yeoman's work getting students to use software productivity in research. Along those lines, I thought I might be able to offer up a some advice on how to make your life easier as a student in a scientific field.

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SciClops - Installing Ruby on Rails

Updating Debian

Now that we have the TS7200 booting Debian linux from the compact flash we can install the development tools that we need.

The first step is to update debian using the apt-get functionality:

apt-get update

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SciClops - Booting Debian from Compact Flash

To boot from the compact flash card of the TS-7200 the following steps were executed:

Partition the compact flash card

Put the Flash card in the USB reader and insert it into a linux desktop PC.

Instructions as documented in the Linux for ARM on TS-72xx User's Guide)

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