ROS ARM install on Inforce Computing IFC6410

[Paul Bouchier]

Hi,

I just received the IFC6410 I ordered after ROSCON, and started following the ROS Indigo install steps at

http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/UbuntuARM

kindly provided by Austin Hendrix and others.

It seems that this board (and probably most boards), need board-specific changes to be made before you can run

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-base
Specifically, for the IFC6410, there is insufficient space on the root filesystem to hold ROS, so you have to put 
an SD card in, and make /opt a symlink to /opt on the SD card. It seems /var/cache/apt also has to be moved onto the
SD card, as it may be too small to hold the packages. There are probably other potholes awaiting me that others have run into.

Do you folks who've done this before have a list of things that typically need to be done, and how best to do them? Are there some prep instructions
for other boards that might be useful as a go-by?

Perhaps we should add a link to http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/UbuntuARM for each board that works that has the steps needed
to make it work, and any special weirdnesses of that board, with workarounds if they exist. (E.g., unplugging ethernet on the IFC6410 seems to
make wifi stop working - maybe some known update is needed - does anyone know the fix?)

Thanks for any pointers you can offer. I really enjoyed Austin's talk at ROSCON, but a little more documentation would be very helpful.

Regards

Paul Bouchier

[Austin Hendrix]

I picked up an IFC6410 after ROScon as well, and ran into the same issues. I think you've hit most of the key things that you'll have to change to put ROS on the SD card.

I'll write up a board-specific guide when I get a chance.

I've seen people link to board-specific guides from the ARM install page before, and I'll probably do the same.

Given that this is likely to be a problem on other boards as well, I may formulate it as a general guide.

-Austin

[James Ronald]

I picked up an IFC6410 as well. It should arrive today.

- Jim

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[Tully Foote]

It would probably be good to make a board specific subpage with notes. Or enable togglable show/hide sections for each board. 

Tully