Murray,

You can make the Live DVD have persistence if you use a USB drive instead of DVD.  I use a 32GB USB key for this purpose.  I strongly recommend USB 3.0.

https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/using-gnu-radio-live-sdr-environment/

Scroll down to the section "Creating a Bootable USB Drive with Persistence".  Make sure you grab the updated grub files from the mailing list link that's in that section.

Regards,

Mike


On 2017-09-07 7:09 AM, Murray Thomson wrote:
Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the explanation, I was mistaken about removing the install option.

My specific situation was that I wanted to test my project in the latest GnuRadio. This version was released but not in the Ubuntu repo. I was worried about breaking my current setup trying to upgrade or install two instances of GnuRadio. The Live DVD wasn't a good option for me because is not persistent. I solved this creating a VirtualBox and installing GnuRadio after. As you said, it wasn't hard, but it took me a while to do and I did had some problems with PyBOMBS (it was my first attempt ;).

It would be nice to have a VirtualBox image that a new user can import and start using, specially for Windows users.

Just as a related note, this maybe interesting for someone that wants to create an iso from a working system and then install it in a different machine:
http://pinguyos.com/2015/09/pinguy-builder-an-app-to-backupremix-buntu/

Kind Regards,
Murray


On 7 September 2017 at 11:53, Marcus Müller <muel...@kit.edu <mailto:muel...@kit.edu>> wrote:

    Hi Murray,

    technically, corganlabs (who's designing that liveDVD) didn't
    *remove* the install option – it's just that the Ubuntu doesn't
    come with a solution to install stuff like it's installed on the
    DVD to disk. You just end up with a default Ubuntu.

    That's why it's kinda hard to do this right.

    I do have a live system of my own, Fedora-based, which comes with
    a lot less modules than the official live DVD. But: Fedora does
    package a lot of the popular OOT modules. Also, when you start
    with a working GNU Radio installation, building OOTs from source
    shouldn't be all that hard, even without tools like PyBOMBS.

    So, maybe this is the point to actually specifically ask you: what
    did you try to do? Is there something that we can make better
    about the ecosystem (and we actually intentionally carry
    "ecosystem" in the logo!) so that things are less of a hassle for you?

    Best regards,
    Marcus


    On 09/07/2017 12:47 AM, Murray Thomson wrote:
    Hi,

    In the last couple of years I have read this same request from
    different people, including myself. It iss true that installing
    GnuRadio on top of a fresh Ubuntu install is not hard, but it
    does take time. Sometimes, being able to create an quick
    installation with a known to work setup is useful. In my case, I
    just wanted to create a Virtualbox to test the latest GnuRadio.

    I see no benefit on removing the install option and I would
    appreciate if this is considered for the next Live DVD.

    Regards,
    Murray

    On 6 September 2017 at 19:41, Marcus Müller <muel...@kit.edu
    <mailto:muel...@kit.edu>> wrote:

        Dear Srinivasan,

        please try to keep discussions on-list!

        Regarding your question: I don't understand. My email says
        exactly that you can't

        Best regards,

        Marcus


        On 09/06/2017 05:34 PM, Srinivasan wrote:
        Thanks. The problems , installing each module introduce
        another problems. Looks like Live CD is working fine with
        all modules.
        Any way , can we install in HD using iso image ? anything
        you can suggest !


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        As far as I'm aware of, there's no direct way.

        Also, little benefit, as with modern Ubuntu, you can also
        use Ubuntu's gnuradio package (unless you /want/ to build
        GNU Radio from source or use a specific version of a
        dependency of GNU Radio, but neither are use cases for
        users of the live DVD).

        So, instead, just install Ubuntu 16.04, or Fedora 26, or
        Gentoo, or Arch Linux, or the most recent Debian, on your
        hard drive using their installation methods, and then
        install GNU Radio using the respective package manager.

        Best regards,

        Marcus Müller


        On 09/06/2017 04:24 PM, Srinivasan wrote:
        Hi There,

        I want to install and run gnuradio live CD from HardDisk.
        I tried various ways and did not work.

        Any idea ?

        Regards

        Srinivasan



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