[Xastir] maps directory question

[vk5zty at bigpond.com]

Thanks Wes,

Have passed on your advice to Tony VK5AH who is using knoppix.

Presumably if /home/knoppix is writeable then any available disk that can be written 
to could be used to store maps. For instance a hard drive.  Just check that the drive 
is writeable and if not remount the drive to be RW. 


Thanks

John
VK5ZTY

On 9 Jan 2005 at 10:37, Wes Johnston wrote:

> John, I have a solution for you.
> 
> First, thanks for pointing me toward a copy of knoppix with xastir preinstalled.
>  Granted it is 1.2 version of xastir, but it's perfectly fine.. esp since it has
> the sound card and ax.25 stuff ready to go. I'm probably going to tinker with it
> and update xastir.
> 
> Now, on with gettting your maps....
> I have a usb thumb drive with maps on it.
> 1)Mount that drive by clicking on the "Hard Disk SDA" icon on your desktop
> (assuming you booted with the USB drive plugged in)
> 
> 2)open a shell
> 
> 3)type EMACS /home/knoppix/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf
> 
> 4)alter the line 24 that says AUTO_MAP_DIR:/usr/share/xatir/ and instead, make
> it say AUTO_MAP_DIR:/mnt/sda1
> 
> 5)close and save the file in emacs.
> 
> 6)run xastir.
> 
> Wes
> --
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting John Williams <vk5zty at bigpond.com>:
> 
> > Thanks for the replies.
> >
> > I will get him to try running knoppix on the hard drive.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
> > VK5ZTY
> >
> > On 6 Jan 2005 at 22:27, Curt Mills wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, VK5ZTY wrote:
> > >
> > > > A local amateur has tried a knoppix distro from
> > > >  http://www.afu-knoppix.de/
> > >
> > > > The next problem is maps.  There are some maps on the CD but not for
> > > > this part of the world.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to specify an alternative maps directory on startup so
> > > > that xastir looks for maps on the hard drive instead of on the CD.
> > >
> > > Some of these CD distributions have a method where you can copy the
> > > CD onto the hard drive and run from there.  That's about your only
> > > option right now I think, unless your home directory is in
> > > read/write memory or disk, in which case you can modify the
> > > ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file so that you can point it to
> > > wherever  you like.  There are several paths to directories and
> > > files listed in that config file.  Just grep for "share" and you
> > > should find them.  I think they're all grouped together.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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