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Mahalo Doug, That's what I'd have done. Just thinking about the less
inclined.. This BBB is a breeze to setup. Really appreciate all your
hard work.<br>
Aloha Jim <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/25/14 15:56, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" face="Tahoma">Jim,<br>
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I will be saying this again probably in a little more detail
but all you have to do is burn the image, bring it up, log in,
setup the first time stuff then use winscp or whatever program
you use to copy files over and <br>
copy the entire /etc/asterisk and sub directories from your
present version on top of the new version. Reboot and you
should be good to go. Of course if you customized other things
you might need to do some other updates. The longest time will
be burning the image!<br>
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Of course it goes without saying that upgrading is always
optional and if what you are using is working for you then
perhaps you would choose not to. I do think though that this
next upgrade will be significant enough in improved
reliability to warrant an upgrade. <br>
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<b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font
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<hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:04:33 -1000<br>
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jim.pilgram@gmail.com">jim.pilgram@gmail.com</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Next BBB update<br>
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Aloha, <br>
Will this require a ground up rebuild or an upgrade. It's not
a big deal to do the ground up for me but I have built a few
nodes for others around the country who might not be able to
do a ground up rebuild.. Easy to burn and ship a new card I
guess. Just wondering.<br>
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Aloha Jim NH6HI<br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 08/25/14 11:46, Doug
Crompton wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" face="Tahoma">Just a little
little tease regarding the next release of the BBB
image. <br>
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There have been very few problems with the current
release but the biggest complaint or concern is the
vulnerability of the USB to power spikes, EMI, etc.
Unfortunately when this happens the current kernel often
does not recover gracefully and a reboot is almost
always necessary. This is annoying with local servers
but for those deployed in remote areas it is just not
acceptable.<br>
<br>
The latest ArchLinux kernel </font><font style=""
face="Tahoma"><font style="" face="Tahoma">along with a
minor fix to the simpleusb channel driver </font>has
solved that problem. This is in testing now and so far
it seems rock solid. You can remove and replace the USB
cable from the BBB while connected and it restores
instantly. Thus if a USB spike takes out the connection
it will recover. This adds a huge increase in
reliability to the BBB. So for those of you who are
experiencing these problems help is on the way!<br>
<br>
The new kernel seems to start faster and although still
under testing it appears the 30 second boot delay that
is now in rc.local can be reduced significantly or
possibly eliminated. The entire startup process is
looking a lot faster. I have gone from power up to
connection to a node in less than a minute.<br>
<br>
Other things that should make it to the next release are
GPIO and backup/restore and a few other nice utility
scripts like weather alerting. Right now we are shooting
for mid September.<br>
<br>
There are lots of ideas brewing about future updates and
if anyone has any particular (realistic) needs in
additional features or can provide additional features
that would be useful to all please email me.<br>
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<b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font
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