How to install ROS on BeagleBoard Ubuntu 10.10?

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I was able to successfully install ROS on an IGEPv2 board, which is very similar to the original Beagleboard. Here's a rough list of steps:

1. You'll have to get a working Ubuntu 10.10 install on the Beagleboard.

2. Next, do an SVN-based install. You can find directions for Cturtle at Installing on Ubuntu from SVN. This will take some time to install, as it will have to build a lot from source on the Beagleboard. You may also have to skip installing certain packages that include GUI things. For example, I don't remember if Ogre compiled successfully on my IGEPv2 board - if it didn't, then anything that depends on Ogre such as rviz would fail to compile. However, since I intended the board to be a headless computer, I didn't really care much if visualization tools failed to compile and install.

If you prefer to cross-compile, checkout the docs for eros, which is a set of packages and tools for cross-compiling and install ROS on embedded systems.

We did the same on Beagleboard and Beagleboard XM, however we didn't install any X-server related things because we only use it to interface robots (Pioneer + Peoplebot) or sensors (Hokuyo, Sick, ...) to the network. I had an old SD card image on my website, I'll take the time to put a new one online, if people show interest for it. We'll soon be putting a crosscompile toolchain tutorial online for the Beagleboard (after it got tested with students in a course).

This is an old question but has a lot of views. Thought I'd post my tutorial here. ROS Groovy on Ubuntu 12.10 on BeagleBoard-xM:

http://sysadminfixes.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/ros-on-beaglebuntu/

I've also got some binaries online, but that are old ones, also the install script is an old one. I need to update it, but I'm currently lacking the time. (patches are always gratefully accepted)