Live GIS Disc Quick Start for Virtual Machines

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Run in Virtual Machine

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

System Requirements for running from a Virtual Machine

  • RAM: 1 Gig, preferably 2Gig if you plan to run other applications as well
  • Spare Hard Disk Space: 9 Gig to install the VM (at version FOSS4G 2009 alpha 4). This will likely increase to 13 Gig. 20 if you've got it.

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

VMWare Server can be used to serve images out using a web browser. It requires 2 Gig of RAM. VMWare Server is not currently recommended as version 2 of VMWare Server and Ubuntu 9.4 or Ubuntu 9.10 has proven to be very flaky.

ISO in VMWare Player (recommended)

  • Run VMWare Player
  • Select "Create New Virtual Machine"
  • Select "Installer Disk Image from ISO"
  • Select Linux/Ubuntu
  • Hard Disk = any size (0 is fine)

Install VM in Virtual 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.
    • Make a New virtual machine.
    • When asked about the hard drive choose to use and existing image, in the subsequent dialogs add the vmdk you downloaded and choose it.
    • Choose your RAM, video memory and other options.
    • The image should now boot like any other Virtual Box image.

If the above doesn't work try to convert the vmdk to a vbox image

  • 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.

Install VM 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 and the program links in the main help page, which can be found on the Live-image's desktop.

OSGeo-Live can be installed on a USB drive. This will boot faster than the DVD.

Requirements
  • 8GB USB drive, for osgeo-live (with Windows and Mac installers)
  • 4GB USB drive, for osgeo-live-mini (without Windows and Mac installers)
  • A modern computer which allows booting from USB. (if not, there are alternatives, see pendrivelinux.com's tutorials below)
  • An osgeo-live iso from http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd

Build from DVD

  • Run an OSGeo-Live DVD
  • Insert USB
  • From the main Ubuntu menu select:
Applications → System → Startup Disk Creator
  • Then choose your USB drive from the list, select "Documents stored in extra space" and set the size slider to its maximum, and click "Make startup disk". This tool wants your USB drive to start with an empty FAT32 partition.
  • Restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot

Build OSGeo-Live USB from Windows

  • Download an OSGeo-Live ISO
  • Install and run the USB Installer
  • Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot

See Also

For further options, see PenDriveLinux.com

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