This is a short tutorial for mounting your BeagleBoard-xM filesystem on your Linux system; in my case this is Ubuntu 10.04.
First install sshfs on your Linux system:
sudo apt-get install sshfs
Before you mount add yourself to the fuse users:
sudo adduser <YOURUSERNAME> fuse
SSH into your BeagleBoard:
To connect to your BeagleBoard-xm simply do this command.
ssh root@<IP_address_Of_BB-xm>
Of course you should use the IP address of your BB-xM. After entering the BB-xM's password you will have a command prompt for the board.
Mounting the BeagleBoard:
To actually mount the BB-xM you need to make a “target” directory and then complete the mount:
mkdir ~/bb-share sshfs root@<IP_address_Of_BB-xm>:/ /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/bb-shared/
You will need give the root password of the BB-xM to complete the mount. Once complete you can navigate to ~/bb-shared and see all of the files in the BB-xM root file system. This line can be difficult to remember and is error prone so I generally make myself a shell script to execute it.
#! /bin/sh echo "Mounting the Beagleboard-xM..." echo "Enter the password for root on the BB-xM..." sshfs root@<IP_address_Of_BB-xm>:/ /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/bb-shared/
You can unmount the BB-xm by:
sudo umount /home/<YOURUSERNAME>/bb-shared/
Browsing BB-xM's files on Nautilus:
If you don't want to mount the BB-xM's files system but just want to browse the files using Nautilus then go to: Places-->Connect to Server... and fill out the dialog like this.
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