Upgrade summary

I will summarize my experience upgrading my beaglebone angstrom system from the A5 version to the hopefully latest. It was painful and may not have solved any problems. Here are the steps:

1. Did an 'opkg update', followed by an 'opkg upgrade'.

This failed with the previously mentioned perl problems:

Collected errors:

 * pkg_get_installed_files: Failed to open //var/lib/opkg/info/perl-module-build.pm.list: No such file or directory.

 * pkg_get_installed_files: Failed to open //var/lib/opkg/info/perl-module-load.pm.list: No such file or directoryroot@beaglebone:/home#

Fixed this using the solutions found on this page.

Did another update/upgrade sequence which seemed to work.

2. Moved the new kernel 3.2.13 to the boot partition of the microSD card, since this is required to use it on  booting (see gigamegablog.)

3. Rebooted, and did an 'ifup eth0' from a logon via the usb console connection to get the ethernet running.

4. Re-installed the usb-modeswitch-data_20120120-r0_all.ipk and usb-modeswitch_1.2.2-r0_armv7a.ipk packages to get the gsm modem running.