Thanks Koen, I finally managed to install ROS on my BB-xM, though (I am still open for any suggestions). I did the following:
  1. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 as described here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Lucid_10.04.2
  2. Configured network access
  3. Built ROS from source as described here: http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Ubuntu/SVN
I had some problems with installing dependencies via apt-get (I think the build script should be a little more verbose about what it is currently doing, which would have spared me some time), but I finally got through this. A 4GB microSD is enough.

Regards,
Marcin

We've been upgrading our embedded ROS installation at our lab for a
course, we'll be able
to release new guidelines soon.
The installation you mentioned was tested on our Beagleboards (old
version) and not yet
on our Beagleboard-xM (but I assume this should also work just fine)
The new guidelines will be for our xM series.
I'll ask for the cross-compile toolchain tomorrow.

Koen

On 12 February 2011 10:45, futureignobel <futureignobel@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to install ROS on my BeagleBoard-xM. I've tried installing as
described here: http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~kbuys/embsensor.html but
with no success (Beagle won't even blink a LED). Any one out there
already done that?

Any suggestions welcome.
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