I used them. They worked flawlessly. On scripting I’d give you an A+. On teaching linux newbies to run bash -c "$(remote_unseen_and_unknown.sh)" as root, you merit an F-.
The result is a debian 10.6 edit: live USB image superseded, see below. That SDR dongle I ordered from the UK 10 days ago is still in the mail, so I haven’t been able to test. I’d love feedback from anyone with an x64 laptop and a spare dongle who would like to give it a go.
Notes:
- Minimum size of USB stick is 16G. The unpacked image is only slightly smaller. It’s a full graphical system with KDE on writable ext4; no squashfs, no persistence overlays, it can be used just as any ordinary HDD-based system.
- Only BIOS boot works. I’ll add EFI boot later.
- The password for root and for user pi is “1090”. Do change them at the first opportunity.
- The image doesn’t have a feeder-id, so it will create a new one as soon as it is booted. Please remember to delete the feed from FA’s servers when you’re done playing with the stick.
- The system reports itself (image-type) as fabian64[*1]. That’s not recognised as a valid feeder type by FA’s adsb/stats/user web interface, but it can be used internally to track the uptake or lack thereof of the live-USB.
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[*1] It just happened to make sense as a name for FA-debian. Later we might have fadora and fantos and, what do you know, even fandows, god forbid.