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Vehicle-mount ALIX – Quick Start Guide
Things you will need
Tools
Anti-static wrist strap
2mm hex key (supplied)
Compact Flash card reader (optional)
Null modem cable (optional)
Materials
If you don't have them already, you'll need:
Compact Flash Card
miniPCI cards (optional) e.g. wireless adapter
Power supply
Operating system image for the vehicle-mount ALIX
Instructions
Safety Note
The ALIX board, like all electronic equipment, is sensitive to damage from static discharge.
To avoid damage caused by static discharge, we strongly recommend that you use an anti-
static wrist strap when handling the board.
Step 1
Remove the case
To install the Compact Flash (CF) and/or miniPCI cards into the vehicle-mount ALIX, you will
need to remove the board from the case.
1. Disconnect power and all cables.
Note: The CF socket on this machine is not hot-swappable.
2. Remove the four screws from the end plate on the rear of the case (the end with the
ethernet and serial ports).
3. Holding the board by the serial port, carefully slide the board out from the case.
Note: You do not need to remove the end plate from the board to set up your vehicle-
mount ALIX box. To remove the end plate from the board, remove the serial port
screws.
Step 2
Configure and install a Compact Flash card
To use your vehicle-mount ALIX, you will need to have a CF card with a suitable operating
system installed in the CF socket on the vehicle-mount ALIX board.
If your CF card does not already have an operating system installed, you can either mount the
CF card in another machine (e.g. via a flash card reader or a CF to IDE adapter) and copy a
boot image onto it, or network boot the vehicle-mount ALIX. The vehicle-mount ALIX
supports many operating systems including BSD, Linux and a number of proprietary operating
systems.
© Yawarra Tiny Computers
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April 2014
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