AMD Geode Computer Update

[Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net>]

Thought I'd pass along an update on my little AMD computer I showed at 
the LUCI Newbie meeting. I've been successful at getting Ubuntu Linux 
6.06 LTS loaded and running.

AMD Geode: <http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%20info%202.htm>

Learned about quite a few things along the way. I used Syslinux and 
booted from a USB pen drive to do the install. Gnome and X-Windows are 
way too slow for a 366 MHz machine but the GUI will run. I suppose it 
might be okay if you are wanting just an email/web terminal.

The biggest find was figuring out a way to strip out Gnome and all the 
other default junk so I could get a stripped down system that just ran 
a command line prompt. My search led me to a program called 
"debfoster", which I assume is only for Debian based systems. It will 
list and optionally delete any installed package on the system plus 
install new ones. I left a fair amount of things because I wasn't sure 
exactly what they were for and ended up with ~500MB of disk space used 
including networking and all the C/C++ development tools.

Now that it's basically in a stable state I can look for drivers to 
talk with my external USB device and/or a USB<->Serial adapter that 
the computer and the device both like. Then I can move on to 
dedicating it to my Ham Radio application for a VHF email gateway.

Tim


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