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512M???<br><br>Don't be silly!!!! Limey only uses (and only *can* use) 128M...<br><br>Jim<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: adamson_alan@hotmail.com<br>To: randy@neals.ca; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:15:10 -0400<br>CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] D2700MUD and Limey...<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Randy, why bother with Limey?<span style=""> </span>When you have the hardware that you have.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have the D2800MT board and mini-itx case, power supply , SODIMM memory etc.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I just grabbed a cheap 60G SSD and loaded up Debian on it.<span style=""> </span>Then my Allstar server runs on the same box.<span style=""> </span>It's wicked fast, but there are some issues, the sound drivers have to be built from scratch, you have to get past getting allstar to run on Debian and you have to modify the sources to run on a 2.6.35 kernel.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All of this was documented on various web sites that I found.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While Limey might be good if you just want to burn an image and go, I suspect that running an allstar server on a 512M USB drive is a bit restrictive.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have no fans, no spinning drivers, the MB is a 12V motherboard and I run 3 URI's and 4 RTCM's all off the same box with no issues whatsoever.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just figured I'd offer an alternative view.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alan</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Randy Neals<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [App_rpt-users] D2700MUD and Limey...</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Hi folks,</p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">I received my parts this week and started building a node.<br>The parts I've acquired:<br>Intel D2700MUD Motherboard: <a href="http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/motherboards/desktop/D2700MUD/overview/487677.htm" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/motherboards/desktop/D2700MUD/overview/487677.htm</a><br>ARK CS-Ci02 mini-itx case: <a href="http://www.arktechinc.net/server-case/cs-ci02.html" target="_blank">http://www.arktechinc.net/server-case/cs-ci02.html</a><br>Crucial 2GB SODIMM DDR3PC3 memory</p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br>The D2700 Motherboard has an embedded USB storage header on the motherboard.</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Rather than using a compact flash drive, I acquired some SanDisk 512MB Embedded USB Flash storage devices. (Found on eBay)</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Here's some documentation on that <a href="http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/M-Systems%20Inc%20PDFs/uSSD_5000_Manual_03.pdf" target="_blank">http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/M-Systems%20Inc%20PDFs/uSSD_5000_Manual_03.pdf</a></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">I downloaded the Limey Linux image, and used Physdiskwrite on my windows pc to write the image to the USB Flash drive.</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Inserted the USB flash drive on the header, and gave it a rip.<br><br>You'll find pictures of the case, mobo and flash drive here.<br><a href="http://www.neals.ca/w3rwn" target="_blank">http://www.neals.ca/w3rwn</a><br><br>Ok, so it boots... loads kernel, makes a ram disk, and runs through a long list of boot up things.<br>It mounts the root filesystem then seems to die.</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 1:0</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck reccomended</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br>There is no command prompt, so not sure what I should be doing next? Doh!<br><br>I'm going to try a different boot image for linux, and check out the hardware independently.</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Thanks,</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Randy</p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">W3RWN (ex KI6TWT)</p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________
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