Live GIS Disc Quick Start

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Arramagong Live DVD

System Requirements

  • RAM: 512 Meg, preferably 1 Gig.
  • CPU: 1 GHz i686 or compatible (Intel/AMD)
  • Spare Hard Disk Space: No hard drive required.
At least 3 Gig if you wish to install the operating system.
  • Mouse: a 3-button mouse is useful, especially for Mac trackpad users.

Download the ISO Image

Download the latest arramagong-livedvd image from http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd.

On linux use: 

wget http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/<image name>.iso

Note: if your image stops half way through, you can restart with: 

wget -c http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/<image name>.iso

If the image is to be downloaded in multiple parts, then you can put it together again with 7zip on MS-Windows, or on Mac or Linux with: 

cat image.iso.1 image.iso.2 > image.iso

Burn the ISO onto a DVD

Use your favourite program to burn the ISO to a DVD.

Boot from the DVD

  • Put the DVD into your computer's CD drive, then reboot your computer.
  • If your computer is set to boot from CD (as is often the case) you should boot up into an Xubuntu system, with Geospatial applications installed. Otherwise you'll have to adjust the BIOS boot settings.
  • If you find yourself at a pretty login page simply press return or wait for the countdown to timeout.
  • Try out the different applications from the desktop and from the Applications → Education menu.

Arramagong GISVM as a Virtual Machine

For full project details, refer to: Live GIS Disc.

System Requirements

  • RAM: 1 Gig, preferably 2Gig if you plan to run other applications as well
  • Spare Hard Disk Space: 9 Gig, at version FOSS4G 2009 alpha 4. This will likely increase to 12 Gig.

Install a Virtual Machine

Download a Virtual Machine player. VMWare Player is recommended as the image has been built and tested using VMWare, however VMWare is a pain to install due to all the personal details you need to enter). If you are on linux, it is much easier to install VirtualBox, and the applications work almost as well, a few window resize glitches and the like. 

apt-get install virtualbox-ose

If you plan to build an image from scratch, you will need VMWare Server (and 2 Gig or RAM).

Download Image

Download the latest ArramagongGISVM from http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd. On linux use: 

wget http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/<image name>.7z

Note: if your image stops half way through, you can restart with: 

wget -c http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/<image name>.7z

If the image is to be downloaded in multiple parts, then you can put it together again with 7zip on windows, or on linux with: 

cat image.7z.1 image.7z.2 > image.7z

Uncompress Image

You will need to uncompress the image using 7zip. Windows installers here: http://www.7-zip.org/

On linux: 

# install
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

# uncompress
7z x <filename.7z>

Install in Virtual Box

  • As the Live GIS Disc is a VMWare virtual machine, you should convert it to the Virtual Box format. There are detailed instruction at the Ubuntu wiki to convert it on a linux box.
  • On recent versions of Virtual Box (tested on Sun Virtual Box 3.0.2) you can add to the virtual disks catalog the vmdk image without any conversion so the only thing you have to do is create a new VM and assign the disk to it.

Install in VMWare Player

Add details about how to set up the image ...

Test

For details about how to test each application, refer to: Live_GIS_Disc_Testing.

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