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Creating
a GNU Radio bootable USB Drive
The Live SDR Environment is a bootable ISO image file that can be put onto a USB flash drive or a
DVD, and runs directly from the USB or DVD, without having to install anything and without modifying the local disk of the system. It contains a number of pre-installed applications as well as up-to-date versions of GNU Radio and UHD enabling support for the latest USRP SDR models.
Ingredient for GNU Radio software Hardware:
Live SDR Eenvironments may be put onto any standard DVD or onto a USB 3.0 flash drive with atleast 16 GB capacity.
Software's:
- UNetbootin (available on Windows, MacOS, Linux), or other live USB creator to convert the ISO image into a bootable live environment on the USB drive.
- The GNU Radio Live SDR Environment USB drive image or Ubuntu Linux DVD.
Downloads :
This version of the ISO image is based on the latest stable release of GNU Radio, 3.7.11, and the stable releases of third party software at that time:
The use of bittorrent reduces the reduces the load on the GNU Radio web server and lowers project bandwidth costs.
If a Bittorrent client is not available or its use is restricted, you may download the ISO image file by choosing from one of the following mirror sites:
Creating a Bootable USB drive
- Creating a bootable USB drive with the Live SDR Environment on it takes more effort, but results in a GNU Radio development environment that can be extended and have work saved.
- essential softwares required to make bootable pendrive are:
- image burner software : ImgBurn
- https://rufus.akeo.ie/ : to make iso image bootable to pendrive.
- The only requirement is a pre-formatted USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 flash drive of 8GB or larger (though the extra space beyond 8GB will not be used or accesible).
- After downloading the ISO image file use UNetbootin on the USB drive.
- Booting from the Live USB is similar to the DVD, pressing F12 (or whichever) during the boot sequence gives a "one time boot menu", where you can select the appropriate entry shown for the USB drive used. Fast USB 3.0 drive speeds can result in a system that feels like a regular hard disk.
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