[Xastir] HowTo Mandriva

[Gerry Creager]

Fedora can be pointed to an iso via kickstart for remote installation, 
as well.

gerry

Lee Bengston wrote:
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo%27s
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Mandriva
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After playing around with VMware and different Linux distributions over the
> past few months,
> one pleasant surprise was Mandriva One 2007 Spring. It is a single CD
> installation, which is
> well suited for installing under VMware Server, where one can point to the
> ISO image and install
> from it without first burning it to a CD. I had done the same with Ubuntu,
> but the Mandriva
> installation was even faster than Ubuntu's. I also found that virtually all
> of the libraries needed
> for compiling a "full featured" XASTIR were available in the Mandriva
> repositories (gpsman
> was the only one I had to get externally).
> 
> I liked it enough that when it came time to set up (finally) my own native
> Linux box, I decided to use
> the Mandriva One CD. I was in for more pleasant surprises. It automatically
> detected a Netgear
> MA311 wireless PCI card upon installation. Then when the signal strength was
> a bit weak, I switched
> to a no-name (Gigafast) wireless USB dongle with a USB extension cable that
> was laying around,
> and it detected that as well. Today I went ahead and compiled XASTIR from
> CVS on the Mandriva
> box and noted the steps along the way, which is now a new HowTo for
> installing XASTIR from
> source in Mandriva (links above).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
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