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Apr 05 18:56:33 <tiger> Hi  Good-Afternoon. I know cloud9 on BBB is using nodejs. Does BalenaOS Flasher uses nodejs? Or whatelse in the BeagleBone black uses nodejs? I am planning to remove nodejs.
Apr 05 19:12:39 <zmatt> tiger: what on earth is "BalenaOS" ?
Apr 05 19:13:34 <zmatt> tiger: if you want a minimal system without all the crap that's on the IoT image, get a console image (which doesn't include nodejs)
Apr 05 19:14:36 <zmatt> you can find console images for the current release in the section "Debian console images" of https://beagleboard.org/latest-images  (no flashers for some reason, but you can turn a regular image into a flasher by uncommenting the last line of /boot/uEnv.txt on the image)
Apr 05 19:14:57 <zmatt> and latest testing console-images here: https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Latest-images-testing#Debian_10_.28Buster.29_Console
Apr 05 19:19:17 <zmatt> tiger: nodejs is also used by bonescript and node-red
Apr 05 19:19:26 <zmatt> (neither of which is installed on the console images)
Apr 05 19:24:24 <zmatt> tiger: balenaOS is apparently some docker thing?  are you using this?  what do you mean by "flasher", that word doesn't seem to make sense in the context.   unless you misspoke and meant "Balena Etcher" (the program often used to write images to SD cards), in which case the question still doesn't make sense since that's a utility you run on your computer to write a disk image to sd cards
Apr 05 19:54:33 <tiger> Balena Etcher is the right words. ( Only used a few times, having hard time to remember things, sorry for that).  I am using it for flashing production boards. I asked the question is to make sure it is NOT required for nodejs on the BBB side.
Apr 05 20:15:09 <zmatt> tiger: etcher copies bytes from a file to an sd card, it does not care what those bytes are
Apr 05 20:18:17 <zmatt> (apart from recognizing compressed image files in order to decompress those on the fly)
Apr 05 20:23:10 <tiger> Ok Etcher just copies data. Before Etcher downloads O/S Image from a image file from host to BBB files system, the boot process of BBB enters flashing mode through BOOTP ( I used an open-source BOOTP server runs on Linux Host, which needs nodejs support).
Apr 05 20:24:44 <zmatt> ah you you're using node-beagle-boot ?
Apr 05 20:25:32 <zmatt> that still doesn't matter here though
Apr 05 20:26:06 <zmatt> booting the bbb into this flashing mode does not use your image, hence does not care what's on your image
Apr 05 20:27:04 <zmatt> (it currently doesn't even use linux but just u-boot, while the older BBBlfs used a miniscule linux system with no userspace program other than busybox)
Apr 05 20:29:51 <tiger> yes, I am using node-beagle-boot. glad to hear it doesn't matter.
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