.tar.gz file with the file system

[charmingajs007]

Looking at the ettus website i found they sell a live USB of a linux OS with gnuradio installed. My question is about the download link at the bottom of the page, it says ** A .tar.gz file with the file system can be downloaded here.
Is that like a virtual image of the system that you can installed on any flash frive? If so how do i do it?

The link is
https://www.ettus.com/product/details/LiveUSB

 

[SignalSeeker]

From memory that is like a double zipped file, but for linux.

Looks like 7-Zip should be able to open it in Windows.

Justin

 

[satosi]

the tarball file probably contains the entire filesystem, i.e., you extract it to the USB drive and then install the bootloader to the USB drive and you can boot from it.
Using windows, you can use 7zip to extract the file but you will have to run it twice, once on the .gz file to uncompress and then again on the resulting .tar file to extract it.
If you have something like cygwin, mingw, or any other linux-like shell with the basic commands, you can extract the archive in one go with the command "tar -xzf file.tar.gz"

 

[charmingajs007]

Thanks guys i did the double unzip using 7zip and i get the files below. Can someone give me a gasic guide to put it on a usb drive and make it bootable? Or just a link to another guide? I have a linux system so windows or linux guide would be great thanks..

 

[satosi]

Since you have a working filesystem all you need is to do is install a bootloader onto the USB drive and set it to boot the linux kernel. I recommend the bootloader GRUB. I've never installed it onto a USB drive before but I've done floppies and hard disks, so here is something I found quickly using google. If that doesn't help, try looking up something like "install grub on usb drive" or "install linux on flash drive".