Digi_Ned? Was RE: [aprssig] APRS Digi "Live" CD?

[Dave Baxter]

Hi again, from home this time.
 
OK on Digi_Ned, I've heard of that but it sort of escaped me.  Probably because it's not a ready to run system...?
 
On the drive home I realised that I have some PC-104 based industrial control panels gathering dust, with 1/4 VGA mono screens and some buttons, as well as RS232, LPT (and GPIB!) ports.  They run DOS as they are at the moment, then the "Controler" application, using a "Disk on chip" device, so no moving parts.   Do I guess right that Digi_Ned might be able to live on these things?
 
They are 80186 or better based, at least 75MHz CPU and enough RAM for Dos, at least half a meg.
 
They also have a propper keyboard port, serial, parallel, floppy, IDE and VGA headers on the CPU cards, with a sort of "normal" PC like bios, as well as the ports above on an expansion card.  There are also two 40 pin F877 like PIC devices on the expansion card, that communicate via the PC-104's LPT port.
 
However, there is no way I could even attempt to build and compile Digi_Ned, for a start, the only Linux machine I have right now (there could be others) runs an old Mandrake 9.2, with no compiler or builder that I can find (it runs an echolink proxy OK) plus I'd need to do some investigation on the PC-104 cards to find out exactly what I have.  I sort of doubt there will be any compiler models or directive files for them, so ????  All I know at the moment is they are made by Ampro, but they are not a current product, nor have they been for some time.  That is why I have them of course :-)
 
Ideas anyone?
 
Dave G0WBX
 
PS:  I only get the digest for this group, so next reply could be a while!
 
 

 
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From: Richard Montgomery [mailto:kb4ytm at gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 22/05/2007 16:58
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS Digi "Live" CD?



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/


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