<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">The install process for beginners goes like this:</span><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">1. Buy a URI (recommended) or a cheap USB sound FOB</div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">2. Go on the Allstar web site. Request an ID, get it approved.</div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">3. Download the ACID iso and burn a CD. </div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">4. Make your ID a sysOp, add a server, request a node(s).</div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">5. Configure the server and assigned node(s).</div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">6. Boot the CD and carefully follow the prompts. </div><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">Expect to repeat steps 5 and 6 many times. It takes a while to sort it all out, stick to it. </div><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">After you get the hang of the web install you can venture into the world of Linux and editing the conf files for advanced power user features. For example there is no web configuration for RTCMs but you can start with a URI config and hand modify. The change is actually pretty simple.</div><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">Speaking of simple, for you cheap ass hams that want to run $80 computers don't do USBradio, use simpleUSB and wire up COR and PL.</div><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">If you want to run Limey Linux rather than CentOS (ACID) you'll need to learn dd (it's available for Windows) to write a CF card. There are a couple of other tricks to Limey, like svcfg. Beginners should drop ACID first, it's the gateway drug to Limey.</div><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">Be sure to read through all the links on the Allstar (<a href="https://allstarlink.org/">https://allstarlink.org/</a>) site BEFORE you login. Because after login the menu changes and much (if not all) of the basic information goes away. Also browse the ohnosec (<a href="http://ohnosec.org/drupal/">http://ohnosec.org/drupal/</a>) site. You don't need an ID to read this site.</div><div style="font-family: monospace; "><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; ">PS - ohnosec, that moment you realize you really screwed up.<br><div>--<br>Tim<br>:wq</div></div></body></html>