Guys,

There are a few things you need to understand, first there is no ISO image, the install is done manually. There are hardware requirements:

HP5745T thin client w/2gb RAM MINIMUM!
This wont run on less period. Remember this runs from /dev/ram0 plus operational ram.

It was installed onto a hard drive attached to an HP5745 Thin Client. From there it was stripped of unneeded stuff, things not needed to support a node.

I then built a 1gb file system and copied the stripped ACID INSTALL into it.

A 2gb USB FLASH DRIVE was partitioned into a 1.5gb partition and a 500mb partition.(larger ones can be used).

Partitions were defined as fat16 and mkdosfs was run on each one. Partition 1 was made bootable. Syslinux was run against partition 1.

All files were transferred to partition 1. They include a kernel, system.map, syslinux, syslinux.cfg and the compresses file system.

In the second partition i have an /etc directory where i keep the network configs and the asterisk configs .

The system pulls the configuration info in at boot time.

I doubt this will work on any other device...

Wanted to clear this up..

Getting alot of email asking what machines this might also run on.

The thin client uses a dual core ATOM processor so the kernel is an smp kernel.

So single core based machines will need a different kernel.

Will post here when I get the install DOC'S finished

Ron Simpson, N6GKJ
CET Sr., FCC



From: Jerry Long <kb3oil@yahoo.com>;
To: n6gkj.cm98@yahoo.com <n6gkj.cm98@yahoo.com>;
Subject: Allstar
Sent: Wed, Apr 17, 2013 10:39:25 AM

Hello Ron,

A friend forwarded an email message that you sent to the ohnosec.org group about a stripped down version of ACID.  I am interested in getting a copy of it because I want to try activating a Allstar node on a flash drive.  At this time I do not want to have a single use dedicated Allstar server.

I recently tried to install ACID on an Oracle's Virtual Box.  It did not install properly or I had a firewall problem, however I know two others who have done this successfully.  Anyway, I thought trying a small and uncluttered version (iso) of ACID might work on a flash drive and maybe in the Virtual Box.

Have you posted your stripped version of ACID on the ohnosec.org site or could you sent me a copy or can I download a copy directly from your site?

Jerry Long, KB3OIL
Jefferson, Maryland
KB3OIL@Yahoo.com
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