[aprssig] APRS Digi "Live" CD?

[Richard Montgomery]

Hello Dave,

I use Digi_ned also for a local digi and it has run over a year without 
any problems, and we have had some strong storms so far this spring.

We have an old 133Mhz pc with a Compact Flash to IDE adapter, and a 8 
meg CF card plugged into it. It boots super fast too so recovery is fast 
once power is restored after going out for whatever reasons.

There is a DIGI_NED floppy install that I modified and copied to the CF 
card. I will post a couple of links below of the findu data for this 
site, and the yahoo group address for digi_ned.

If you need any help in trying this setup let me know.

Richard
KB4YTM

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=jacktn

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digined/




Dave Baxter wrote:
> Hi All...
> 
> Does anyone have anything like a bootable Digipeater program disk for PC
> hardware, to control a dumb TNC?  (Pac-com or whatever, with no backup
> battery, so fresh setup needed each restart)   Something that can reside
> on a CD or even a floppy, and not depend on anything like a Hard Disk
> based OS to run?...
> 
> We have PC hardware coming out of our ears, but so far all the APRS
> software I've looked at, needs at least DOS, Windows, or Linux to run,
> then manual intervention at some point to get going as a fully fledged
> digi.  Yes I know all about scripts and batch files etc, but there is
> always "something" you can't cater for doing it that way, and it's that
> 0.0001% of the time that no one will be there to kick it.
> 
> A group of us in the UK have the permission of our local repeater group
> to "convert" a little used packet node to a much needed digi.  But
> historically, the power supply at the site is not reliable (people
> on-site unplug the kit without warning at times!) so it needs to be 110%
> bomb proof power outage recovery wise.  Something the above OS's aren't
> sadly.  From my own limited experiments, Linux seems more resilient than
> Windows, and something like DOS even more so.  But.....
> 
> Having played a bit with some of the "Live CD" versions of Linux (My
> favourite at the mo is Puppy Linux, fast, small, does the job) it would
> be good if something like that was about for a fully featured APRS
> Digi/I-Gate (we cant do the I-Gate, no net connection on site.)
> 
> We're looking for something that is simple to get restarted, so if
> needed, other members of the group (or the on-site people) who know
> squat about APRS and PC's, can if needed just go and switch it all back
> on, with absolutely no need to fiddle.   The radio will be either
> crystal controlled, or have a hard programmed (ROM) synthesizer.
> 
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Dave G0WBX.
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