allstar on a usb stick?

AllStarLink
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Pete,
I've run Debian on a USB flash drive on both X86 and RPi
[> http://ukallstarhub.ddns.net/ukallstarhub/?p=379](http://ukallstarhub.ddns.net/ukallstarhub/?p=379)
> Anyone seen that before?
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Hi there, yes I have seen this.

It is on my website www.ukallstarhub,com under the Blog section.

It has been developed by Ken K5ENB, Peter G7RPG and Phil G7OEA. The idea originally from Phil to enable people to trial AllStar without having to install ACID etc on to a computer or buy BBB/RPi2 etc.

There is an image to download which you can install on a memory flash drive. Set up your PC to boot from the USB port and you are then on you way. You just need your node number, node password and a headset or you can use it with a radio if needed.

Regards

Steve M0HOY

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On 3 Jun 2015, at 19:32, Steve Zingman szingman@msgstor.com wrote:


Pete,
I've run Debian on a USB flash drive on both X86 and RPi
[> http://ukallstarhub.ddns.net/ukallstarhub/?p=379](http://ukallstarhub.ddns.net/ukallstarhub/?p=379)
> Anyone seen that before?

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 "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking

about."
1st Law of Logic

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Since the www.ukallstarhub,com under the Blog section no longer functions is there somewhere it can be downloaded.
Thanks

Larry - N7FM

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While I can not help with the broken weblink or a pre-prepared image…

You can install to a thumb drive as any local drive.
You need to mount the volume first I think and install to that location.
(Index of /files/ASL_Images)

Just a word about this…
While I can see the handiness of this, be aware you may have issues if you remove it from one machine and plug it into a similar machine, you may have issues not fully recognizing all the hardware if different. Sometimes this may not be a issue but it can be. Watch your screen on boot and logs on first time use in other machines.

Also, my advice would be to fully disconnect nodes and shut down the software before removing the drive.
You could have issues or corruption with temp files.

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Since some of the later version of the Raspberry Pi will boot from the USB flash drive (or a SD drive for that matter) you can put the RPi image on a USB flash drive and just boot it. If you are going to do this on a RPi4, you will need the AllStarLink beta image or the DVSwitch image (NOT ASL 1.01).

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Mike and Steve,
Thanks to both of you for the feedback. Have a friend just getting started and he was wanting to do this for testing to test and understand how it all works. Good to know the RPi Image will run from a USB Drive. Will steer him that way.

Larry - N7FM