Hi, John! My Fit-PC is still going strong, after over 8 years of continual duty.
About 3 or 4 years ago, I reinstalled the operating system for reasons I don't recall. Like you, I could not get a more modern version of Ubuntu to work. Fortunately, Ubuntu has a repository of previously released versions <http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/>, so I just reinstalled 8.04 ("Hardy Heron"), which works fine (32-bits, of course). The other trick is to install the "server" version, which is much smaller and simpler, with fewer things to go wrong. I'll bet there's still a few years of life left in that box of yours! -tk On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:04 AM, John Canfield <johnwcanfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Long time weewx user here, I think I was Tom's first or second beta user > (V 0.9). I started using hacked Linksys NSLU2s (aka 'slugs') but the flash > memory would get corrupted after a few months. Tom and I hooked up in a > forum discussing the then new PC-Fit Slims, a tiny fanless low-power PC > which was a *perfect *hardware platform for weewx. The PC-Fit's were > expensive but highly reliable. I think I've had this particular PC-Fit Slim > running for five or six years, one time I think a sector got corrupted on > its HDD and I had to rebuild the system. > > Recently it wouldn't answer a heartbeat ping from my WebSwitch (remote > power controller) about once a week and the switch would power cycle that > outlet. This is very unusual, it would previously run for months with no > attention needed. I think for some reason the network would go down and for > a while I thought that it was basically bricked. It finally came up and I > thought I better retire the box, rebuild it and keep it for a spare. The > Ubuntu version wasn't being supported any longer so that was another good > reason to rebuilt it. > > The PC-Fit Slim's are long retired and Compulab has a new series of boxes, > after looking at less expensive alternatives I decided to stick with > Compulab. So in front of me as I type this is a brand new unopened MintBox > Mini Pro. AMD A10 Micro-6700T microprocessor, 2Gb ram, 120Gb SSD. The box > has the latest Linux Mint pre-installed. > > So we will have fun getting this guy set up and running. I've never used > Linux Mint but it's based on Debian and Ubuntu so there shouldn't be any > surprises. > > John > WB5THT - weather.janeandjohn.org, CWOP EW0158 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
