Is there any Linux Live CD with GNURadio already included???

[Raydel Abreu]

Hello everyone,

I am new to this group, nice info indeed... Does anybody know where
can i get a ISO image file for a Linux Live CD that includes already
the GNURadio.

I am primary a Windows user but GNURadio is a very great tool, however
installing Linux in a partition may consume precious MB of storage.
Having a linux distro in a Live CD or in a booteable USB flash will be
a better solution for me. If this Live CD has GNURadio already
included will be excellent.

Any info will be very apreciated.

Best regards,

Raydel, CM2ESP

[Richard Farina]

On 08/23/2012 08:43 AM, Raydel Abreu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to this group, nice info indeed... Does anybody know where
> can i get a ISO image file for a Linux Live CD that includes already
> the GNURadio.
>
> I am primary a Windows user but GNURadio is a very great tool, however
> installing Linux in a partition may consume precious MB of storage.
> Having a linux distro in a Live CD or in a booteable USB flash will be
> a better solution for me. If this Live CD has GNURadio already
> included will be excellent.

Then Pentoo live disk is primarily a penetration testing platform,
however, to that end we have added in gnuradio and rtlsdr stuff to the
best of our ability.

Currently we have:

gnuradio
librtlsdr
gr-air-modes
virtualradar
multimode
sdrsharp


I'm happy to add more things as requested, right now I'm shipping a
version I called "beta 1.7" since the build I wanted to call beta 2 just
wasn't good enough.

You can fetch it here:
http://dev.pentoo.ch/~zero/isos

Right now I'm ONLY building a 64 bit version, however I will be
releasing 32 and 64 bit builds in the near future.

If there is enough interest I will consider a radio/sdr specific version
of Pentoo.

More info on the project is available at http://www.pentoo.ch or by
asking me ;-)

Thanks,
Zero

[Lasse Radio]

I will certainly appreciate a 32-bit version. I have had some thoughts of adding Linux to my windows 7 netbook, having two OS. But I'm reluctant to do that at the moment. A live Linux with GNURadio and SDRSharp would be great.

Regards

Lasse

[KD9GN]

Hi Zero,

I was able to get SDRSharp to run under mono using your live cd. I
think my PC lacks the necessary resources to run it very well but none
the less it detected my dongle and was able to tune to an FM broadcast
station.

I was wondering though, I wasn't able to figure out how to start
gnu-radio, multimode.py or find rtl-test. I tried using find, locate,
etc to determine where they were installed but had no luck.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Also, do you have GNU Radio Companion on your live CD.

Great work on the distro!

Thanks,

Dave
KD9GN

[Richard Farina]

You can actually just type "sdrsharp" and it will automatically load
with mono.

>
> I was wondering though, I wasn't able to figure out how to start
> gnu-radio, multimode.py or find rtl-test. I tried using find, locate,
> etc to determine where they were installed but had no luck.

Multimode appears to have failed to install, looking at the issue it
failed to fetch and the certificate on cgran is invalid, great. I'll
have that fixed in the next release, sorry about that.

You can't find rtl-test because it is rtl_test but it is there ;-)

>
> Can you point me in the right direction?
>
> Also, do you have GNU Radio Companion on your live CD.

It's not, completely by oversight. Fixed for next release.

>
> Great work on the distro!

I appreciate the useful feedback, I should have another beta out shortly
which corrects these issues, maybe two weeks depending on how much life
respects my desire to work on it.

Thanks,
Zero

[cm2esp]

Hello Zero and all,

I have take a look to pentoo.ch and i start to download the recent ISO, it may take some time as my bandwidth is not so great, i'm looking forward to test it.

Having a dedicated Live Linux version for SDR and/or ham-radio stuff will be great. Many of us, have Windows installed but playing around with partitions and multi-OS is tricky. However, just reboot and boot from a CD or USB Flash is cool!!!

Thanks,

Raydel

[DJ0MY]

Hi all,

sorry for picking this old post up again :-)

I tried Pentoo Linux on various PCs and tried to get GRC running with a few simple flow graphs, but it seems as soon as I add any of the graphical WX GUI sinks, such as a scope, fft, waterfall sink, etc.  the flows are not properly executed and no graph sink shows up at all...
The status box at the bottom only says -> Done   after execution of the flow... which is strange behaviour...

Can somebody confirm this is a problem of Pentoo and not of my used hardware?

This would mean that the GRC install is in principal unusable if the graphical sinks dont work :-(

Does anyone know if there is an easy fix or any alternative live linux with a working GNU radio and GRC preinstalled...?

Cheers,

Oscar DJ0MY

[Gisle Vanem]

"DJ0MY" <oscar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I tried Pentoo Linux on various PCs and tried to get GRC running with a few
> simple flow graphs, but it seems as soon as I add any of the graphical WX
> GUI sinks, such as a scope, fft, waterfall sink, etc. the flows are not
> properly executed and no graph sink shows up at all...

The ARRL TAPR guys and Tom Rondeau KB3UKZ had a good
intro to GNU Radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hGNT1w-jig

Where the speaker mentioned a live Xubuntu Linux CD with GR 3.7 installed
It seems to be this one:
http://www.febo.com/pages/dcc_dvd/

But it's a bit more work than running off a Live CD. But installing
the latest Ubuntu is real easy; Get the ISO here and burn a CD/DVD:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

I did it 2 months ago on my laptop that had Win-7 on it. The Ubuntu
installer didn't touch my Win-stuff and put in new boot-manager (Grub?).
Really neat.

--gv

[DJ0MY]

Hi,

yeah, I watched Tom's videos on YouTube already a while ago....

Thanks for the hint on XUbuntu....I will have a look to that one.

I was not talking about a regular install, but really about a live cd.

I have Ubuntu 12.x on one of my PCs with GNU radio and GRC working like a charm.

I really need a Live CD for performing "on the fly" live demos on various non linux PCs.

Actually Pentoo has it all with plenty of radio packages preinstalled.
Just a pity that GRC WX GUI sinks do not work properly.
(since the are used very often)

Non graphical sink flows work OK, by the way.

Cheers,

Oscar

[Gisle Vanem]

"DJ0MY" <oscar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Actually Pentoo has it all with plenty of radio packages preinstalled.
> Just a pity that GRC WX GUI sinks do not work properly.
> (since the are used very often)

I thought that Qt GUI was more popular now. Especially now with Qt 5.x
and all the new cool stuff in it. Qt (I assume that's Qt 4.8.x) in GRC does
looks very nice.

--gv

[Richard Farina]

On 08/31/2013 11:39 AM, DJ0MY wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for picking this old post up again :-)
>
> I tried Pentoo Linux on various PCs and tried to get GRC running with a few
> simple flow graphs, but it seems as soon as I add any of the graphical WX
> GUI sinks, such as a scope, fft, waterfall sink, etc. the flows are not
> properly executed and no graph sink shows up at all...
> The status box at the bottom only says -> Done after execution of the
> flow... which is strange behaviour...
>
> Can somebody confirm this is a problem of Pentoo and not of my used
> hardware?

Mike Ossmann (of hackrf fame) uses Pentoo for his class and says he and
all of his students have not had any issues. If you have issues and
care to debug then irc is the easiest. Lots of places to get help on
freenode, ##rtlsdr, #gnuradio, or even #pentoo if you insist that
everyone else isn't testing it right and it really is my fault.

thanks,
Zero

>
> This would mean that the GRC install is in principal unusable if the
> graphical sinks dont work :-(
>
> Does anyone know if there is an easy fix or any alternative live linux with
> a working GNU radio and GRC preinstalled...?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oscar DJ0MY
>
>
>
> Am Freitag, 24. August 2012 16:53:48 UTC+2 schrieb cm2esp:
>>
>>
>> Hello Zero and all,
>>
>> I have take a look to pentoo.ch and i start to download the recent ISO,
>> it may take some time as my bandwidth is not so great, i'm looking forward
>> to test it.
>>
>> Having a dedicated Live Linux version for SDR and/or ham-radio stuff will
>> be great. Many of us, have Windows installed but playing around with
>> partitions and multi-OS is tricky. However, just reboot and boot from a CD
>> or USB Flash is cool!!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Raydel
>>

>> El jueves, 23 de agosto de 2012 08:58:05 UTC-4, Rick Farina escribi�:

[DJ0MY]

Hi there,

I actually found an alternative. Some time ago the was this post on rtl-sdr.com :

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdrhackrf-live-dvd/

This leads to a nice live CD based on Ubuntu 12 and a fully functional GRC 3.6.5 installed including many 3rd party blocks....

Works right out of the box without any graphical sink issues.

Cheers,

Oscar

P.S. 

To Zero: the problem is very easy to replicate. Just take in GRC a Signal source block, connetc to throttle block and connect to WX GUI Scope sink.....build this flow and run it....
(result -> nothing......................expected result:    Scope on the screen showing a sinuidal waveform)

>> El jueves, 23 de agosto de 2012 08:58:05 UTC-4, Rick Farina escribi�:

[Colorado Rob]

Hi Gisle,

I must be missing something because I do not see nearly as many GUI blocks available for Qt as I see for WX.  I have never found a Qt waterfall sink for example.  Are these available?

Rob
wx9o

--gv

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W dniu wtorek, 3 września 2013 16:51:44 UTC+2 użytkownik Colorado Rob napisał:

Hi Gisle,

I must be missing something because I do not see nearly as many GUI blocks available for Qt as I see for WX.  I have never found a Qt waterfall sink for example.  Are these available?

Rob
wx9o

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Gisle Vanem <gva...@broadpark.no> wrote:

"DJ0MY" <oscar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Actually Pentoo has it all with plenty of radio packages preinstalled.
Just a pity that GRC WX GUI sinks do not work properly.
(since the are used very often)

I thought that Qt GUI was more popular now. Especially now with Qt 5.x
and all the new cool stuff in it. Qt (I assume that's Qt 4.8.x) in GRC does looks very nice.

--gv

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