Re: [Tlf-devel] Tlf test system with live CD operational

[w9ya]

Hey Rein;

Sounds WAY too cool.

I am concerned that, or so I am told, some meory sticks do not work well with 
linux. Somehow this sounds suspect, but now that it has come up here, does 
anyone have any info one way or the other on this ?

Vy 73;

Bob
w9ya


On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:25 pm, Rein Couperus wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> after 2 weeks of pile-up/contest fun and computer/frustration with TS7N in
> Tunisia, (http://iae.nl/users/reinc/ComputerChaos.doc) I decided that the
> only way to prevent the frustration would have been to bring  live CD's
> with Linux/tlf for all computers in the network... And so I started to look
> around for a simple solution, which is now ready for testing..... This
> stuff is really plug and play. You put the ethernet cable into its hole and
> you're practically done.
> see http://sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pub/linux/ham/tlf/morphixpic.png
>
> The solution is to use a live CD for the Linux part and a USB Memory Stick
> (you can buy them for 0.5 Euro/MByte these days) for the tlf/cwdaemon part,
> including logging on the USB stick. This solution does not even mount the
> hard drive!! You can find the archive at
> sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pub/linux/ham/tlf/tlf-morphix.tar.gz
>
> The README sayz:
>
> I have been experimenting with the MORPHIX live CD, and I am extremely
> pleased with the results. It enables me to run tlf from any modern laptop
> or desktop, even if it has been trashed with Window$. It loads Linux (in
> fact Debian Sid) from the CDROM into a ramdrive; it does not touch the
> Window$ or DO$ harddisk.
> I am using the MorphixCombined-KDE-0.4-1.iso, because it has a nice Linux
> console (download at www.morphix.com, all GPL).
>
> I have made a small script "install-tlf" which does the following:
> 1.: It loads the usb-storage kernel module
> 2.: It prepares the mounting point for the USB Memory Drive (fstab+mount
> point)
> 3.: It mounts the USB Memory Drive under /mnt/usbstick
> 4.: It copies the tlf-morphix directory from the USB drive to /home/morph,
> which is the standard user under Morphix.
> 5.: It unloads the printer driver
> 6.: It loads the ppdev driver
> 7.: It makes a parport0 device in /dev
> 8.: It starts cwdaemon
>
> As I did not have time to "morph" the iso, I run the tlf-install script
> from a floppy. But if somebody has time (the "morphing" routine is arcane
> at best) he can make a tlf+cwdaemon module for MORPHIX, maybe also
> including Xplanet... (Just needs a bit of scripting and copying, all the
> hard work is done by Morphix-base).
>
> With the tlf-morphix.tar.gz archive + the MorphixCombined-KDE-0.4-1.iso
> CDROM + an USB Memorystick + a floppy you have everything needed to run tlf
> from any computer having USB, CDROM and Floppy. The idea if of course to
> use only USB stick and CDROM in future...
>
> This is a test release containing:
> tlf-0.9.11.1-morphix (a special version at the moment, will be merged with
> the tlf main stream)
> cwdaemon-0.8
> install-tlf
> all files necessary to run a cqww contest (logcfg.dat, cty.dat and
> callmaster).
>
> By loading the files from the USB Memory Stick they can be easily kept up
> to date, so it would just be necessary to teach Morphix to run the tlf
> install script...
>
> You can download the Morphix iso from www.morphix.org.
>
> To get a complete tlf system going the procedure is simple:
>
> 1.: Untar the tlf-morphix directory on a USB Memory Stick (8MB is enough)
> 2.: Put the install-tlf script on a floppy
> 3.: Put the Morphix ISO on a cdrom
> That concludes the preparatory work............
>
> 4.: Put the USB Memory Stick into an USB slot
> 5.: Reboot the target computer with the Morphix Live CD
> 5a.: Wait until KDE is running...
> 6.: Start a konsole terminal
> 7.: Be root ('sudo bash')
> 8.: Mount the floppy (mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 9.: Copy the install file to the root directory
>       ('cp /floppy/install-tlf install-tlf')
> 10.: Unmount the floppy ('umount /floppy')
> 11.: Run the script ('./install-tlf')
> 12.: Start a linux console (as user 'morph')
> 13.: Go into directory tlf-morphix
> 14.: Start tlf ('./tlf') and bash away.....
> That concludes the final work. Your boss' brand new Windows laptop is now a
> Linux system with tlf, ready for the contest.... and your qso's are written
> safely to the USB Stick(after every qso).
>
> So far the README.
>
> If already have plenty of ideas how to handle the ip addresses for M/M etc
> etc... I am really pleased with this.
>
> Who is going to take this further????
>
> 73,
>
> Rein PA0R