Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GnuRadio on PCI-104 (i.e., Fedora on USB Flash Drive)

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:59:57PM -0600, Bahn, William L Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote:

> I have GnuRadio up and running on some Fujitsu Tablet PC under Fedora Core 6.

> I need to get GnuRadio up and running on some PCI-104 embedded
> processors, which means I need the O/S to boot from a USB key. I
> have a 4 GB key but am willing to purchase an 8 GB or even a 16 GB
> key if that's what it takes.
>
> The PCI-104 has 1 GB of DRAM.
> 
> Is there a fairly straightforward way to get Fedora to run from a USB key?
>
> An alternative would be: Does anyone know of a Linux distro that can
> be made to run from a USB key that we can get GnuRadio up and
> running on without too much heartache. We've tried installing it on
> DSL (Damn Small Linux) but can't get the fftw libraries to compile.

Mandriva is promoting a version that boots off a USB drive
http://www.mandriva.com.  I would expect that almost all distributions
would work, assuming that the BIOS will load the bootloader off the
USB drive.

FWIW, a few years ago I used to run Mandriva, and had no problems
running GNU Radio on it.

Eric