VF2 Lite eMMC Setup Guide for Linux?

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Hi,

I’ve got three Vision Five 2 Lite’s 8Gb with the 64Gb eMMC. I use Linux on my desktop and I’m looking for a guide to setting these up with Debian or Ubuntu FROM a Linux system. I’ve only been able to find tools and a guide for Windows.

Also, if I need a serial cable to set them up, can anyone recommend which serial cable I should get please?

For future SBC’s it would have been really good if you could hold down a button, or short some pins on the device which could then allow it to be mounted as a storage device so you could dd Linux straight to the device.

Thanks,

Andy

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About serial cable，I recommend using FT232 or CP210x.

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You can use the serial port on one board to connect to the serial port on a second board (both need to have 3.3 volt GPIO pins), using “female to female jumper wires”.
e.g.

GND1<->GND2
 RX1<->TX2
 TX1<->RX2

I’ve also used the USB to UART bridge of a Raspberry Pi Debug Probe.