Simulation Installation Guide
- Install your favorite SVN Client and download the code
- Read <iarc_home>/trunk/install.txt for further instructions
Rastor Installation Guide
What you will need
- An XUbuntu 6.10 installation CD
- Some kind of flash media that has 4GB or more of storage
- A computer that is light enough to stick on the helicopter
- A wireless router
- A base station computer
Installation Guide
- Install XUbuntu 6.10 on the flash media
- Turn off the power to your computer and disconnect any hard drives
- Insert the USB key and the installation CD and run the install program
- Manually edit the partition table. Create two partitions: make the first one the main partition (ext3) and the second one a swap partition (swap). A good rule of thumb is that the swap size should be twice your RAM size, but use your own good judgment.
- After XUbuntu is done installing follow the simulation installation guide (above) to get the code running on your new system
- Install wireless card drivers for the helicopter computer (this could be painful if you are not a Linux wizard)
- Try to boot from the USB drive. If you have an older BIOS that does not support this operation you may need to boot from a CD.
- Try booting into the helicopter computer. You might get some kind of errors saying xorg cannot start
- To get xorg working try playing with the commands: "lspci", "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", and "sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
- To get wireless drivers working try playing with ndiswrapper
- Get the simulation code working on the base station
- Modify any base station config files and set the "icehost" parameter to be the ip address of the heli computer
