Thank you so much for building this. So much time is wasted getting the base OS with the SDR software installed and ready to go.
I wanted to see if you have seen the following project. It's geared at automating the install / building of an OS with SDR software in it. I understand you are using Deb10, this project is using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with some slow work being done to port it over to 20.04 LTS (beta). The methods used to build this will work with Debian as well.
I would encourage you to reach out to this project and maybe there can be some collaboration to reduce the workload for all parties.
Reading over the site now and it does seem to have some things in common. I'll reach out to them. If i read it correct it sounds like it is a virtual machine image and not really capable of being installed directly onto a pc laptop etc?
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There are a couple of scripts to turn it into a bootable ISO (a trimmed
down version) there are also other tools we could use to install it to
baremetal.
I'm not sure how your build process is scripted, I just thought that with
multiple people working on something very similar it would be nice to
reduce some overhead. With this one I'm able to help testing by making a
change or two and letting it build for an hour or so. Right now I'm beating
my head against a wall with Gnuradio 3.8 (from pybombs) and ubuntu 20.04.
This build process can easily work for Debian as well, which I'm more
familiar with anyways.
Reading over the site now and it does seem to have some things in common.
I'll reach out to them. If i read it correct it sounds like it is a virtual
machine image and not really capable of being installed directly onto a pc
laptop etc?
Looking over some of thier scripts and must say thats awesome how it pulls everything down and puts it together. I notice pybombs is used a lot, for example on bladerf. I wonder how that differs from using apt and if apt puts the udev rules in place. I think it does, but I do not have a bladerf to make sure it works. Now I'd like to try and build thier project to see how it works.
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Yeah, it might not build properly right now due to pybombs. It might work
fine as long as you use the fork from https://github.com/jonpeck/instant-gnuradio. This is because several things
regarding emacs in the original are broken in some updated versions.
Regardless, I just commented those out and rebuilt it a couple of times.
One of the things that is no mentioned is that you will need Virtualbox 6
or better with all virtualization and nesting enabled. I ran into this
issue for a little while because I did an apt install virtualbox.
I have an Debian vm with VB 6 installed and then build the vm there. I
normally only use VMware Workstation and would like this to work on that
but I'm not picky as long as it's easy to build then I can take the ova or
iso anywhere.
I like how it builds an OS ova and then adds on top of that the rest of the
SDR apps. It speeds up the repeat build process for testing a bunch once
you get a stable OS ova.
Looking over some of thier scripts and must say thats awesome how it pulls
everything down and puts it together. I notice pybombs is used a lot, for
example on bladerf. I wonder how that differs from using apt and if apt
puts the udev rules in place. I think it does, but I do not have a bladerf
to make sure it works. Now I'd like to try and build thier project to see
how it works.
Thank you so much for building this. So much time is wasted getting the base OS with the SDR software installed and ready to go.
I wanted to see if you have seen the following project. It's geared at automating the install / building of an OS with SDR software in it. I understand you are using Deb10, this project is using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with some slow work being done to port it over to 20.04 LTS (beta). The methods used to build this will work with Debian as well.
I would encourage you to reach out to this project and maybe there can be some collaboration to reduce the workload for all parties.
https://github.com/bastibl/instant-gnuradio
Latest updates from a fork.
https://github.com/jonpeck/instant-gnuradio
Reading over the site now and it does seem to have some things in common. I'll reach out to them. If i read it correct it sounds like it is a virtual machine image and not really capable of being installed directly onto a pc laptop etc?
There are a couple of scripts to turn it into a bootable ISO (a trimmed
down version) there are also other tools we could use to install it to
baremetal.
I'm not sure how your build process is scripted, I just thought that with
multiple people working on something very similar it would be nice to
reduce some overhead. With this one I'm able to help testing by making a
change or two and letting it build for an hour or so. Right now I'm beating
my head against a wall with Gnuradio 3.8 (from pybombs) and ubuntu 20.04.
This build process can easily work for Debian as well, which I'm more
familiar with anyways.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:19 AM Cemaxecuter cemaxecuter@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Looking over some of thier scripts and must say thats awesome how it pulls everything down and puts it together. I notice pybombs is used a lot, for example on bladerf. I wonder how that differs from using apt and if apt puts the udev rules in place. I think it does, but I do not have a bladerf to make sure it works. Now I'd like to try and build thier project to see how it works.
Yeah, it might not build properly right now due to pybombs. It might work
fine as long as you use the fork from
https://github.com/jonpeck/instant-gnuradio. This is because several things
regarding emacs in the original are broken in some updated versions.
Regardless, I just commented those out and rebuilt it a couple of times.
One of the things that is no mentioned is that you will need Virtualbox 6
or better with all virtualization and nesting enabled. I ran into this
issue for a little while because I did an apt install virtualbox.
I have an Debian vm with VB 6 installed and then build the vm there. I
normally only use VMware Workstation and would like this to work on that
but I'm not picky as long as it's easy to build then I can take the ova or
iso anywhere.
I like how it builds an OS ova and then adds on top of that the rest of the
SDR apps. It speeds up the repeat build process for testing a bunch once
you get a stable OS ova.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 6:20 PM Cemaxecuter cemaxecuter@users.sourceforge.net wrote: