Thanks for the response. More questions below. > Bahn, William L Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote: > > > > I need to get GnuRadio up and running on some PCI-104 embedded > processors, which means I need the O/S to boot from a USB key. I have a 4 > GB key but am willing to purchase an 8 GB or even a 16 GB key if that's > what it takes. > > What embedded processor? If it's x86, it won't be a problem. > Otherwise, you could be in for a world of fun. ;-) > > > The PCI-104 has 1 GB of DRAM. > > ummm, do you mean PC/104, like here [1]?
No. The PCI-104 is a modified form factor that has a PCI connector instead of the ISA connector. We are using Lippert's Cool RoadRunner 4 which uses a Pentium M Processor. > > An alternative would be: Does anyone know of a Linux distro that can be > made to run from a USB key that we can get GnuRadio up and running on > without too much heartache. We've tried installing it on DSL (Damn Small > Linux) but can't get the fftw libraries to compile. > > I've installed both Gentoo and Ubuntu to thumbdrives. I see install directions for GnuRadio for Ubuntu, but don't see anything for Gentoo. As I look over the instructions for the various distros, they seem quite different, so I wouldn't know how to even start trying to install it on Gentoo. So I'll try Ubuntu first. > The easiest way to do it would be to pull the hard drive from a laptop, > boot from the Ubuntu CD, and plug in the thumb drive (should be the only > disk in the laptop in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the boot > sector of other drives). Then proceed with install. Is accidentally overwriting the boot sector on the hard drive something that is super easy to do? I would rather not get into tearing someone else's laptop apart if I can avoid it. So what is the sequence I am looking at doing here? Is it something like: 1) Use a laptop that has a CD drive and install Ubuntu onto a thumb drive on that machine. 2) Boot the PCI-104 machine using the thumb drive. 3) Install GnuRadio onto the thumbdrive on the PCI-104 machine. How do I handle the various drivers that are needed for the PCI-104 machine? Can I create a boot thumbdrive on one machine and use it to boot a very different machine? _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
