[arm-allstar] node building

[Doug Crompton]

Jim,

 As Dave said everything is on the SD card and you can boot it on any Black hardware.

If you want to setup a new node for a different location I would setup the IP for the current location. Then go in and setup all the config files. Get it working with the new server and nodes. You could either just go in and edit the files or copy them from an existing working node. If you did that you would still have to change the node numbers and registration PW as a minimum.

Once it is working the way you want it to for the new location then run firsttime.sh again.

 /usr/local/sbin/firsttime.sh

Then change the IP address to suit the new location. Also you have the option of changing the PW and hostname.  I usually set the hostname to the node number. That avoids a lot of confusion when you have 2 or more ssh windows opened to remote sites.

Then it will reboot but not work if the IP address range is different than the current network. Just shut it down and take it to the new location. Port forward the iax port in the router at the new location and boot the Black. It should work out of the box.

Once you have done a few Blacks you could do the setup minus the image burn time in about 10 minutes!!
Also since everything is on the SD card and you are dispersing nodes around HI you should have backup SD cards shipped with the nodes and kept with them. In the unlikely case you would have a problem you could just swap the SD card. Also keep a copy of the images on a PC somewhere.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:47:02 -1000
> From: jim.pilgram at gmail.com
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Subject: [arm-allstar] node building
> 
> Aloha,
> Noob question! I was wondering if I have a working BBB, Is the uSD card 
> married to the BBB? Can I pull the uSD card and boot it in a different 
> BBB outside my network and not have to edit anything except maybe the IP 
> information depending if I set it up static or DHCP and Port forwarding 
> stuff.  Does anything get written to the BBB or just the uSD card? I'm 
> looking to set up more repeater and simplex nodes around the Island and 
> wanted to do all the editing from the comfort of my desk. Then when I  
> get more BBB's I can pretty much plug and play.
> 
> I did read
> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/BBB-backup.pdf
> Just wondering if the BBB cares where the uSD card was originally 
> configured.
> 
> Jim NH6HI
> 
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