[Xastir] Another way to run XASTIR under Windows

[Lee Bengston]

On 9/27/07, William McKeehan <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> wrote:

The only issue I had was when I issued the first apt-get install command, I
> had problems fetching sources. I updated the /etc/resolv.conf file to have
> DNS
> servers in it that I use on my other boxes and things went smoothly from
> there.


Everything I have tried this on so far has been using DHCP for everything,
so I did not encounter any DNS issues.  Good to know, though - should
probably mention it in the Wiki when I get a chance.

FYI, I mounted my "C:" drive as /mnt/c and used a symbolic link from
> /usr/local/share/xastir to /mnt/c/cygwin/usr/local/share/xastir and
> everything
> seems to be working great.


I have also mounted the main windows drive on one of the machines I am using
this on.  Seems to work fine.

Thanks for the work and documentation!
>

No problem - am glad to hear it was useful.  I have seen some issues posted
regarding Cygwin recently, so I think others will find andLinux to be handy.

Regards,
Lee  - K5DAT

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