[Xastir] Another way to get Linux and Xastir

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

My apologies if this has already been discussed but I don't recall.

I always wanted to experiment with Linux being installed on a USB pen 
drive. The price of the high capacity USB pen drives have really come 
down in price. Staples had a Memorex 4GB pen drive on sale this week for 
about $60. So I picked one up yesterday and installed Knoppix on it from 
some instructions I found at pendrivelinux.com. I tried Damn Small Linux 
(that worked, but too plain), PCLinux (could not get it to set the 
display correctly even after messing with it) and Knoppix. Knoppix 
worked very well but still cannot get it (as of yet) to work with my 
wireless Ethernet card, but it does work just fine with my wire Ethernet 
card.

I enabled most of the repositories so I could find Xastir, downloaded 
and installed it on the pen drive and now I have not only a 
full-functioning Linux OS on a pen drive, but also Xastir running. The 
whole system can fit in my pocket.

Very easy to set-up on the pen drive with the download and instructions 
on pendrivelinux.com website. With this set-up, you can actually have an 
entire computer running without a conventional hard drive attached.

One caveat, your computer has to be able to boot from USB and you have 
to change the boot order in the bios settings. Really kind of fun, not 
only from a Xastir perspective, but also from a Linux perspective.

Regards,

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

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