[Hackrf-dev] known good laptop running Pentoo.

[Russell Handorf]

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.
>
>
>
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> 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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