[Xastir] Xastir-Xubuntu Live CD/USB

[William McKeehan]

I worked with this ISO this weekend.

I installed it on a 1GB USB drive, booted into that, then did the install onto
an 8GB USB drive. I had a few issues with things working on my laptop, but
once I had the installation on the 8GB drive, I was able to install the proper
drivers and got things working very well.

Thia will be a handy thing to have in the toolbox! Thanks Lee!
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
http://mckeehan.homeip.net


On Sun, March 22, 2009 6:19 pm, Lee Bengston wrote:
> Recently there were some inquiries about live usb images for Xastir.
> That piqued my interest, and after looking into it a bit, I concluded
> the following:
>
> - A standard ISO image normally written to a CD can also be written to a
>   USB flash drive.
> - Standard CD burning software such as K3B or Nero will easily burn an
>   ISO image to a CD or DVD.
> - A handy piece of software called unetbootin will write an ISO image to
>   a USB flash drive and make the flash drive bootable.
> - unetbootin can be downloaded at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
>
> Thanks to some good documentation from Ubuntu, I was able to modify an
> Xubuntu 8.10 live CD image to include Xastir 1.95 installed from CVS.
> Thanks to Bob Donnell, the image has been posted at the following
> link.  There is also a text file posted containing the md5sum of the
> iso file.
>
> http://wetnet.net/~kd7nm/LiveCD/
>
> I chose Xubuntu because there was plenty of room to add Xastir and its
> dependencies without exceeding the ~700MB limit of a CD.
>
> I have run this image live as well as installed it to a spare hard
> drive.  In both cases I was on a Windows box doing it via usb - I had
> used unetbootin to write the iso image to a 1GB flash drive.  Whether
> running live or after installation, Xastir was there and launched
> normally from a terminal.
>
> One thing I haven't tried yet is installing it from the live 1GB usb
> stick to an 8GB usb stick, which would result in a standard,
> update-able installation on an external stick that has room for extra
> maps, etc., but I'm expecting it to work.
>
> Fyi, there is no desktop icon or menu item for Xastir in the iso image
> - you have to start it from a command line by typing "xastir &"
>
> The Xastir source files are in /home/src/XASTIR
>
> Have fun,
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
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