[Xastir] maps directory question

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:

> Unless you're running knoppix off a bootable DVD (is there a bootable DVD
> spec?), I don't think there is much room on there for any signifigant maps.  I
> had thought at one point that scince a lot of computers now have dual CD's or
> a DVD and a CD-RW, that you could boot knoppix off of /dev/cdrom0 and then
> symlink /dev/cdrom1 to the maps directory and have the maps heirarchy
> pre-burned on CD.  The mount and symlink could be created at startup.  I know
> that knoppix has some tools for storing home directory data on removable
> storage like thumb drives and neat stuff like that.  One of those tools might
> help you in some way.

For what it's worth, I have one system set up where the
/usr/local/share/xastir/maps directory is really a symlink off to
another directory.  Works just fine.

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