Re: [gpsd-dev] Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

[Hal Murray]

The parts list should probably mention power.  You either need a wall-wart 
type unit or a USB A-to-micro-B cable and a place to plug it in to steal 
power.


I think the "Download the 2016-03-18 Raspbian Lite image zip file to your host" 
step should have a wget line that can be cut-pasted.


"If you used clockmaker --build, ddimage will have been downloaded"
  That's the first mention of clockmaker.

On the sdd mess.  What I do, is check the tail of /var/log/messages to see what 
devices appeared when I pluged it in, then chown me:me /dev/sdX, then do the dd 
as non-root.  That way I have to fat-finger two steps to trash something.

"Note: this can take a while."  My SD-to-USB box has a LED that blinks when 
active.

"If that doesn\u2019t work, attach a physical keyboard and display..."
I think it would help to have some introductory remarks about normally 
not-needing a display or keyboard and/or the parts needed if you do want to use 
them.

"If you have not downloaded clockmaker, refer.."  That's only a few lines 
above.  I assume you rearranged some things and that didn't get updated.

The line before "systemctl disable hciuart" is confusing.  The "this" doesn't 
make sense.

"Configure the 1PPS GPIO pin =="
Still == on the end.

You don't need a good sky view for the first part of the smoke test.


"The prerequisites not present..."
I find the whole clockmaker stuff confusing.  I'm not sure why.  I think you 
are trying to describe both how to do it without clockmaker and also what 
clockmaker would do.  Maybe what's missing is something like:
  run clockmaker --config
  it will do the following steps, or you can do them by hand

"with two local devices and four pool sources"
The previous ntpq printout shows 3 "good" servers.

See my previous comments about actually using the pool command.

"repository clones live and install"
  live => live in


"You can choose to configure the SBC to use a fixed, static IP address.."

The whole goal was to setup a NTP server.  How are you going to use it without 
a static IP Address?  (We could discuss that, but you probably don't want to go 
down that rathole.)

"We provide a script called pinup that makes..."
Where did it come from?

The 4th reference has a [ but no following mumble]



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