Parallella Community

Thanks Fred.

I was just getting jealous.
I'd since done a bit of DuckDucking and am less concerned now about bricking a board - if it comes to that. I have two.
Actually, I believe it's the same sort of risk that '000's of PC BIOS upgraders have been running for decades: that process has always been subject to Power and/or Finger failures.

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Good to see the pictures of the .
{Picky} Not the final images though - the reset button and caps are still in their current positions.

I see that Adapteva have made a sensible choice of removing the USB and HDMI chips and sockets as well as the Samtec connectors. Cool! Well, definitely cool-er!!
When my CFO/wife authorises the funds - these are the way to go to build that supercluster.

BUT -
Default linaro Ubuntu (and nano) images do not have the openssh (or any sshserver) package installed.
As I found on the build, you need to run the board up with HDMI in order to install openssh, before you can revert to headless. I could do that because MY version still has the sockets, etc.
Not sure if the UART can be used to perform the apt-get install - I suspect it can - but there are some incompatibilities (which I don't understand).

So, likely that the default Parallella linaro Ubuntu image (- and shodrucky's Nano build instructions - ) will need updating to ensure this vital package is included.
Are you intending to release a separate Parallella headless/server image?

Cheers,

I think that the final images are what you can see in the page about the new heatsink:


The caps are in the same place but they are smaller, and it looks like they just removed the reset switch which is a bit worrying for me: I need it occasionally to get the board to boot after powering it up.