Re: [digitalradio] Re: PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box?
Hi Ralph, you can get the live CD from the UBUNTU site, www.UBUNTU.com. They will also send you a bunch of CD's free of charge if you send them an email. All info on their web site. 73, Rein EA/PA0R/P -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Gesendet: 20.01.07 23:46:44 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [digitalradio] Re: PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box? Rein, Where is the live CD for Ubuntu available from? I might try that as my friendly Linux mentor prefers FC5 / 6 over Mandrake. I have been testing with the original issue CD (GMFSK) which is not very reliable - server hangs after a couple of hrs, client cursor locks on laptop when screensave times in - so will organise an upgrade soon. I did manage to get the client going on FC4 but wouln't ever want to repeat the procedure now you have CD distros available. Perhaps my Macintosh classic OS background is showing here. Ralph --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rein Couperus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU PC sitting around doing nothing. What would I need to do to turn this totally in to a linux computer running PSKMAIL ? Andy K3UK Andy, First step: upgrade to 256 MB RAM (512 MB is even better) and run the live CD with the preinstalled pskmail server and client. This will tell you if your machine is ready to run a modern Linux. Look at the pskmail list for help if needed. There are already a number of experimental pskmail servers on the air in the US. Info and URL's on http://pskmail.wikispaces.com. As soon as that works, goto step 2: Install the Linux distro from the live CD to the hard drive and enjoy the full power of Linux and pskmail. Or... install UBUNTU 6.06 LTS and install pskmail separately (installation details on the wiki). There is also a live CD available for UBUNTU, so you can try it first. I would use the 6.06 LTS (long time support) version, which is very stable and will be supported for 3 years to come... 73, Rein PA0R -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Our other groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Our other groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[digitalradio] Re: PSKMAIL : Turning an old PC in to a Linux box?
-Thanks Chris. I just burned it as an ISO to a CD-R. Now I am ready to boot the thing. If you don't here from me for a few days, you know I have blown my PC up! Andy K3UK -- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Chris Danis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/07, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU PC sitting around doing nothing. What would I need to do to turn this totally in to a linux computer running PSKMAIL ? Andy, There is a PSKMail live-CD image available: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/live_distro If you burn the image to a CD-R (as an ISO image), you'll have a bootable CD that will run Linux and PSKMail directly from the CD, without touching anything on your computer's hard drive. Once you're done, you can reboot, eject the disc, and everything on your computer is still exactly as it was before. I believe that the disc also has some way to easily install to a hard disk should you choose to do so, but I'm not sure. As long as the PC can boot from CD-ROM and has = 256MB of RAM, you should be fine. I've never actually tried any of this myself, so if you run into troubles, the PSKMail mailing list is definitely where to go: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/Mailing+list best 73, -chris N2YYZ
