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Voyage ONE 0.6.5 released
We are pleased to announce that Voyage ONE 0.6.5 is released as 0.6.5 is promoted to stable.
It is suggested to use Live CD rather than tarball version since tarball version is less tested. In this release, we only focus on Asterisk 1.6 basic functions, even though dahdi (zaptel) and FXO/FXS hardware were not tested.
For more information on Voyage ONE, please visit this link.
Daily Build is now "squeeze"
For those who did not notice, daily build has been switched to Debian "squeeze". Kernel is now 2.6.32.
Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid voyage tty1
voyage login: root
Password:
Linux voyage 2.6.32-voyage #1 PREEMPT Thu May 27 02:39:19 GMT 2010 i686
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
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\ // _ \\ \/ /,-_ |/ _ |/ -_) remountrw - mount disk as read-write
\/ \___/ \ / \___,\_ |\___| remountro - mount disk as read-only
_/_/ _'_| remove.docs - remove all docs and manpages
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< http://linux.voyage.hk > Version: 0.7 (Build Date 20100602)
root@voyage:~#
Voyage Linux 0.6.5 Promoted to Stable
We are pleased to announce that Voyage Linux 0.6.5 is now promoted to stable. The promotion also hinted that 0.7 development has been started.
We are planning for 0.7.0 development release and it will based on 2.6.32 and Debian "squeeze".
Voyage Linux 0.6.5 released
Voyage 0.6.5, which includes 2.6.30 kernel, is released. Version number jumps from 0.6.2 to 0.6.5 to emphasize the kernel version update. Still, Voyage Linux 0.6.5 is based on Debian Lenny (r5.0)
Apart from kernel update to 2.6.30, 0.6.5 includes a number of enhancements in voyage.update and voyage-sync scripts, as well as the return of /ro directory. Perhaps there will be some updates to 0.6 prior to 0.7.0. 0.7.0 is however scheduled on 2010 summer if Debian "squeeze" is not delayed again.
[2010-02-25 Update]: For user upgrading from 0.6.2 (care should be taken in every step in the upgrade):
# remountrw # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade
To use the new 2.6.30-voyage kernel, first install it by:
# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.30-voyage \
madwifi-modules-2.6.30-voyage \
aufs-modules-2.6.30-voyage
For safety, add the follow entry the grub menu to /boot/grub/menu.lst such that you can fallback to 2.6.26 version:
title voyage-linux-2.6.26 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-486-voyage root=LABEL=ROOT_FS console=ttyS0,38400n8 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-486-voyage
Then reboot. If everything is OK with the new kernel, you may remove the old kernel by:
# apt-get remove --purge linux-image-2.6.26-486-voyage \
madwifi-modules-2.6.26-486-voyage \
aufs-modules-2.6.26-486-voyage
and the corresponding entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Support or get involved in Voyage Linux!
[2010-03-23 Update]: Like 0.6.2, to avoid stuck beacon problem, you can downgrade madwifi driver manually by:
# remountrw # wget http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.6/madwifi/madwifi-modules-2.6.30-voyage _0.9.4~rc2-1+7.0-1_i386.deb # dpkg -i madwifi-modules-2.6.30-voyage_0.9.4~rc2-1+7.0-1_i386.deb
What do others say?
Voyage Linux can be customized with your imagination. See how people review and use Voyage Linux:
- LinuxDevices
- ServerWatch / Enterprise Networking Planet
- Music Player Daemon
- VoIP / Asterisk / OpenVox
- Embedded Board Specific
- Blog Articles
- Founder/Developer's Blog (PUNKN!X.com)
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Tip of the Trade: Voyage Linux
The Comforts of Debian. Embedded
Do More With Less: 802.1Q VLANs with Voyage Linux
Run a Business Network on Linux
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Setting up a Linux home server based on a low cost and low power hardware (PC Engines ALIX) – Part1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4
Setting up an Alix
Installing Voyage Linux on ALIX 2c0
Setting up a Linux router based on the WRAP
Ubuntu on Alix (aufs)
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Debian Lovers - Why I love Voyage Linux
Voyage Linux - fitting name, fitting linux
Setting up a mini-network
You have written about Voyage Linux? Telling us by sending mail to contact @ voyage.hk.
Voyage ONE
Voyage ONE is an enhanced edition of Voyage Linux. It aims at integrating the most usable server software and making Voyage Linux a complete, full featured and usable embedded x86 platform.
Stable versions:
Development versions:
Snapshot Build:
Current Voyage ONE is based on Voyage Linux 0.6.5. It integrates the following software:
- VoIP : asterisk dahdi(formerly zaptel)
- VPN and tunneling : vtun openvpn stunnel
- Meshing : AWDS batmand olsrd
- Others: aprtables iperf usbutils gpsd ntp quagga snmpd
To access asterisk-gui,
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http://<voyage IP>:8088
username: admin
password: voyage
Older Voyage ONE version could be found here.
We would like hear your comments about Voyage ONE and discuss its possibilities. Please post your feedback to the community mailing-list.
Getting Started - PXE boot (v0.6.x)
README.pxe
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< http://linux.voyage.hk >
==============================================================================
This README.pxe provide information on how to start a PXE+NFS server for
network booting environment using Voyage Live CD. This is useful to install
voyage from Live CD over the network.
==============================================================================
Starting the Live CD as PXE server
==============================================================================
To start PXE environment from live-cd, after login root (password: voyage) ,
type:
# /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe start
where is the serial console speed. Without this parameter, the
default is 9600. Hence, to start PXE server for WRAP/ALIX board, you should:
# /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe start 38400
You can also set to 0 to disable serial console. This is useful
for booting generic PC.
The PXE enviroment on the Live CD assumes eth0 is connected to the network.
/etc/init.d/voyage-pxe will set 192.168.1.200 to eth0, start a TFTP and NFS
sevice, also start dnsmasq to offer DHCP lease of 192.168.1.10-20 for netboot.
To shutdown PXE server environment,
# /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe stop
==============================================================================
Booting a PXE client and starting automated installation
==============================================================================
Start your WRAP/Soekric board or PC to boot from network. When the bootloader
is loaded, you have several options:
1. PXE Boot Voyage Linux with a login shell
2. Start automated install for WRAP (/dev/hda and 38400 serial console)
3. Start automated install for ALIX (/dev/hda and 38400 serial console)
4. Start automated install for 45/48xx (/dev/hda and 19200 serial console)
5. Start automated install for 55xx (/dev/hda and 19200 serial console)
6. Start automated install for gerenic PC (/dev/hda and no serial console)
The boot prompt will wait for 5 seconds. After the timeout, option 1 (login
shell) will be started automatically.
*** Please note that option 2-6 for automated install will erase your disk on
/dev/hda and install a fresh copy of Voyage Linux. Make sure you know what
it is going to do before choosing option 2-6.
==============================================================================
Installing Voyage Linux on a PXE booted environment
==============================================================================
If you want to go through all the steps for manual install, select option 1.
After boot with a login shell, you can login as root. To install voyage under
netboot environment, you can follow the below procedures:
1. Create distribution directory for installation
# mkdir /tmp/root
# mount -o loop /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs /tmp/root
# cd /tmp/root
2. Make a mount point for installation disk
# mkdir /tmp/cf
3. Format target disk device
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device.
** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk!
Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
4. Start voyage.update installation script
# /usr/local/sbin/voyage.update
Following the instruction to select /tmp/root as distribution directory, and
/tmp/cf as mount point. After the installation complete, simple reboot the
board and Voyage will be started!
There are some additional packages installed for PXE and NFS server. After
starting Voyage, you can safely remove them by:
# remountrw
# apt-get remove syslinux atftpd nfs-kernel-server \
bzip2 sg3-utils minicom
After all, remove the last line in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf:
conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.pxe.conf
Important Note:
The current NFS server and client code is unstable for long time use. Hence,
it is not recommended to use PXE+NFS environment for real production. It is
only good for installing Voyage Linux at the moment.
Getting Started - PXE boot (v0.5.x)
README.pxe
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\/ \___/ \ / \___,\_ |\___|
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{ V o y a g e } - L i n u x
< http://linux.voyage.hk >
==============================================================================
This README.pxe provide information on how to start a PXE+NFS server for
network booting environment using Voyage Live CD. This is useful to install
voyage from Live CD over the network.
==============================================================================
Starting the Live CD as PXE server
==============================================================================
To start PXE environment from live-cd, after login root (password: voyage) ,
type:
# /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe start
where is the serial console speed. Without this parameter, the
default is 9600. Hence, to start PXE server for WRAP board, you should:
# /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe start 38400
You can also set to 0 to disable serial console. This is useful
for booting generic PC.
The PXE enviroment on the Live CD assumes eth0 is connected to the network.
/etc/init.d/voyage-pxe will set 192.168.1.200 to eth0, start a TFTP and NFS
sevice, also start dnsmasq to offer DHCP lease of 192.168.1.10-20 for netboot.
To shutdown PXE server environment,
# /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe stop
==============================================================================
Booting a PXE client and starting automated installation
==============================================================================
Start your WRAP/Soekric board or PC to boot from network. When the bootloader
is loaded, you have several options:
1. PXE Boot Voyage Linux with a login shell
2. Start automated install for WRAP (/dev/hda and 38400 serial console)
3. Start automated install for Soekris (/dev/hda and 19200 serial console)
4. Start automated install for gerenic PC (/dev/hda and no serial console)
The boot prompt will wait for 5 seconds. After the timeout, option 1 (login
shell) will be started automatically.
*** Please note that option 2-4 for automated install will erase your disk on
/dev/hda and install a fresh copy of Voyage Linux. Make sure you know what
it is going to do before choosing option 2-4.
==============================================================================
Installing Voyage Linux on a PXE booted environment
==============================================================================
If you want to go through all the steps for manual install, select option 1.
After boot with a login shell, you can login as root. To install voyage under
netboot environment, you can follow the below procedures:
1. Create distribution directory for installation
# mkdir /tmp/root
# mount -o loop /live_media/casper/filesystem.squashfs /tmp/root
# cd /tmp/root
2. Make a mount point for installation disk
# mkdir /tmp/cf
3. Format target disk device
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device.
** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk!
Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
4. Start voyage.update installation script
# /usr/local/sbin/voyage.update
Following the instruction to select /tmp/root as distribution directory, and
/tmp/cf as mount point. After the installation complete, simple reboot the
board and Voyage will be started!
There are some additional packages installed for PXE and NFS server. After
starting Voyage, you can safely remove them by:
# remountrw
# apt-get remove casper syslinux atftpd nfs-user-server \
bzip2 unionfs-tools sg3-utils minicom
After all, remove the last line in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf:
conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.pxe.conf
Important Note:
The current NFS server and client code is unstable for long time use. Hence,
it is not recommended to use PXE+NFS environment for real production. It is
only good for installing Voyage Linux at the moment.
Getting Started - Live CD (v0.5.x)
README.live-cd
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\/ \___/ \ / \___,\_ |\___|
_/_/ _'_|
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< http://linux.voyage.hk >
==============================================================================
This README.live-cd provide information on how to install Voyage Linux from the
Live CD.
==============================================================================
Installing Voyage Linux to a hard disk from Live CD
==============================================================================
Afte booting the Live CD, login as root (password: voyage)
1. Create distribution directory for installation
# mkdir /tmp/root
# mount -o loop /live_media/casper/filesystem.squashfs /tmp/root
# cd /tmp/root
2. Make a mount point for installation disk
# mkdir /tmp/cf
3. Format target disk device
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device.
** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk!
Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
4. Start voyage.update installation script
# /usr/local/sbin/voyage.update
Following the instruction to select /tmp/root as distribution directory, and
/tmp/cf as mount point. After the installation complete, simple reboot the
board and Voyage will be started!
There are some additional packages installed for PXE and NFS server. After
starting Voyage, you can safely remove them by:
# remountrw
# apt-get remove casper syslinux atftpd nfs-user-server \
bzip2 unionfs-tools sg3-utils minicom
After all, remove the last line in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf:
conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.pxe.conf
==============================================================================
Installing to a Thumb-drive or Disk-constraint system (net4826)
==============================================================================
Follow the instruction to install Voyage Linux to a ext2 partition with root
squashfs filesystem like the Live CD format. This is done by extlinux.
1. As usual, create mount point for the installation disk and format it
# mkdir /tmp/cf
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device.
** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk!
Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
2. Mount the disk and copy CD content to disk device
# mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/cf
# rsync -aHx /live_media/* /tmp/cf
3. Create extlinux.conf and install extlinux
# cp /tmp/cf/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /tmp/cf/isolinux/extlinux.conf
# extlinux -i /tmp/cf/isolinux
4. Update master boot record for disk device
# cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/hda
After all, reboot!
There are some notes when using this installation method:
a. You will have a read-only squashfs root filesystem on a CF that consumes
just 36MB and you cannot modify the rootfs.
b. By default, all changes made to the system reside on tmpfs. i.e. Changes
are lost after reboot. You can preserve the changes by creating another
partition and labeled it as "casper-rw", or create a loopback file called
"casper-rw" at /
(see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence: this is not tested
and need more exploration)
c. You will still be able to boot Live CD again after the installation. But
once the CD is booted, the installed disk with be mounted as rootfs and you
are unable to umount it. To get around this, you need to specify the
following command at boot prompt (assume CD-ROM device is /dev/hdc):
linux bootfrom=/dev/hdc
Getting Started - Live CD (v0.6.x)
README.live-cd
=============================================================================
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\ // _ \\ \/ /,-_ |/ _ |/ -_)
\/ \___/ \ / \___,\_ |\___|
_/_/ _'_|
{ V o y a g e } - L i n u x
< http://linux.voyage.hk >
==============================================================================
This README.live-cd provide information on how to install Voyage Linux from the
Live CD.
==============================================================================
Installing Voyage Linux to a hard disk from Live CD
==============================================================================
Afte booting the Live CD, login as root (password: voyage)
1. Create distribution directory for installation
# mkdir /tmp/root
# mount -o loop /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs /tmp/root
# cd /tmp/root
2. Make a mount point for installation disk
# mkdir /tmp/cf
3. Format target disk device
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device.
** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk!
Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
4. Start voyage.update installation script
# /usr/local/sbin/voyage.update
Following the instruction to select /tmp/root as distribution directory, and
/tmp/cf as mount point. After the installation complete, simple reboot the
board and Voyage will be started!
There are some additional packages installed for PXE and NFS server. After
starting Voyage, you can safely remove them by:
# remountrw
# apt-get remove syslinux atftpd nfs-kernel-server \
bzip2 sg3-utils minicom
After all, remove the last line in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf:
conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.pxe.conf
==============================================================================
Installing to a Thumb-drive or Disk-constraint system (net4826)
==============================================================================
Follow the instruction to install Voyage Linux to a ext2 partition with root
squashfs filesystem like the Live CD format. This is done by extlinux.
1. As usual, create mount point for the installation disk and format it
# mkdir /tmp/cf
# /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device.
** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk!
Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
2. Mount the disk and copy CD content to disk device
# mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/cf
# rsync -aHx /live/image/* /tmp/cf
3. Create extlinux.conf and install extlinux
# cp /tmp/cf/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /tmp/cf/isolinux/extlinux.conf
# extlinux -i /tmp/cf/isolinux
4. Update master boot record for disk device
# cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/hda
After all, reboot!
There are some notes when using this installation method:
a. You will have a read-only squashfs root filesystem on a CF that consumes
just 36MB and you cannot modify the rootfs.
b. By default, all changes made to the system reside on tmpfs. i.e. Changes
are lost after reboot. You can preserve the changes by creating another
partition and labeled it as "casper-rw", or create a loopback file called
"casper-rw" at /
(see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence: this is not tested
and need more exploration)
c. You will still be able to boot Live CD again after the installation. But
once the CD is booted, the installed disk with be mounted as rootfs and you
are unable to umount it. To get around this, you need to specify the
following command at boot prompt (assume CD-ROM device is /dev/hdc):
linux bootfrom=/dev/hdc