[Hackrf-dev] known good laptop running Pentoo.

[Joshua Marpet]

Pete,

Are you saying both the ubuntu and pentoo live DVD's didn't work?  Or did I
read it wrong?  And if it was just the pentoo livedvd that wouldn't boot,
what went wrong?  Error messages?

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On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Russell Handorf <rhandorf at handorf.org>
wrote:

> One of two things come to mind:
>
> 1. What's the MD5 of the ISO used to burn the image? Could be a bad ISO
> copy.
> 2. EFI BIOS problem/setting? Have you made any adjustments there?
>
> r
>
>
> On 11/09/2014 11:22 AM, pete M wrote:
>
>> Rich,the problem is not power.. tested unbutu live dvd and pentoo live
>> dvd on flash and burned on dvd on 4 different machine.
>> one is a bit slow, (core 2 duo) the other is also abit slow I3 2ghz, the
>> others are I5 None would just pass boot of those distro live dvd.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 10:32:21 -0500
>> From: richnsanders at gmail.com
>> To: hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com
>> Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] known good laptop running Pentoo.
>>
>> Pete,
>>
>> SDR requires some decent computing power, nothing crazy, but not bottom
>> of the line.  I'd recommend at least an i5 core and 8 gig of Ram, 16
>> would be better but you can always upgrade later.  Video cards and SDR
>> are a moot point unless you're going to use something like gr-fosphor
>> requiring Cuda support.
>>
>> Ubuntu 14 will do the job well, but it can be a bit bloated. Lubuntu is
>> less bloated, but it may require you to compile more packages.  The
>> trade off between bloat and installation issues may be a deciding factor
>> on which version to use.  I have not tried raw Debian, but it should do
>> the job well too.
>>
>> Currently I'm running it well on an Asus G73S and an Alienware M14. The
>> Asus runs it without issue and handles gr-fosphor well too.  Of course
>> the Alienware runs my SDR without breaking a sweat.
>>
>> SDR#
>> http://rtlsdr.org/softwarelinux
>>
>> Ubuntu 14
>> http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/
>>
>> Lubuntu 14
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/14.04/release/
>>
>> My pybombs install guide is only a few months old, but since HackRF came
>> out, some major packages have been added/updated.  I probably need to
>> re-write it., but it will get you in the ballpark for setting everything
>> up.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/2014 10:25 PM, C Crane wrote:
>>
>>     It runs fine on my Dell XPS12.
>>
>>     On Nov 8, 2014 8:16 PM, "pete M" <petem001 at hotmail.com
>>     <mailto:petem001 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Anyone can confirm to me that they run Pentoo on a laptop?
>>
>>         And if yes, can you tell me the exact model number, the pentoo
>>         version and any other thing you did beside just install pentoo
>>         on the machine?
>>
>>         Tired of turning in circle trying to find a way to run this..
>>
>>         it is nice to run my hack-rf with sdr#.. but would really like
>>         to tx with it.
>>
>>         Pierre
>>         VE2PF
>>
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