Hey Tom,
Thanks for the link. When I get the new one in production I'll rebuild
the FIT - don't need all of the desktop stuff and X, that would really
simplify the install. That little guy should keep going for a long time.
I might replace the HDD with SDD, then no moving parts.
I think I have the Mint box ready to go, just need to get off my duff
and get it plugged in.
John
weather.janeandjohn.org
On 3/4/2017 9:53 AM, Thomas Keffer wrote:
Hi, John!
My Fit-PC is still going strong, after over 8 years of continual duty.
About 3 or 4 years ago, I reinstalled the operating system for reasons
I don't recall. Like you, I could not get a more modern version of
Ubuntu to work. Fortunately, Ubuntu has a repository of previously
released versions <http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/>, so I
just reinstalled 8.04 ("Hardy Heron"), which works fine (32-bits, of
course).
The other trick is to install the "server" version, which is much
smaller and simpler, with fewer things to go wrong.
I'll bet there's still a few years of life left in that box of yours!
-tk
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:04 AM, John Canfield
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Long time weewx user here, I think I was Tom's first or second
beta user (V 0.9). I started using hacked Linksys NSLU2s (aka
'slugs') but the flash memory would get corrupted after a few
months. Tom and I hooked up in a forum discussing the then new
PC-Fit Slims, a tiny fanless low-power PC which was a /perfect
/hardware platform for weewx. The PC-Fit's were expensive but
highly reliable. I think I've had this particular PC-Fit Slim
running for five or six years, one time I think a sector got
corrupted on its HDD and I had to rebuild the system.
Recently it wouldn't answer a heartbeat ping from my WebSwitch
(remote power controller) about once a week and the switch would
power cycle that outlet. This is very unusual, it would previously
run for months with no attention needed. I think for some reason
the network would go down and for a while I thought that it was
basically bricked. It finally came up and I thought I better
retire the box, rebuild it and keep it for a spare. The Ubuntu
version wasn't being supported any longer so that was another good
reason to rebuilt it.
The PC-Fit Slim's are long retired and Compulab has a new series
of boxes, after looking at less expensive alternatives I decided
to stick with Compulab. So in front of me as I type this is a
brand new unopened MintBox Mini Pro. AMD A10 Micro-6700T
microprocessor, 2Gb ram, 120Gb SSD. The box has the latest Linux
Mint pre-installed.
So we will have fun getting this guy set up and running. I've
never used Linux Mint but it's based on Debian and Ubuntu so there
shouldn't be any surprises.
John
WB5THT - weather.janeandjohn.org <http://weather.janeandjohn.org>,
CWOP EW0158
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