William- Isn't there an issue of how much GNU radio can actually do on a Pentium M system? The Lippert board you mention looks like it's limited to 1 GHz or less with passive cooling. I assume this is a mil app, but you can use fan cooling?
What will GNU radio actually be doing? -Jeff > 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