Live GIS Disc Quick Start

Arramagong GISVM as a Virtual Machine

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

Download Image

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

http://www.virtualbox.org/

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

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Install in VMWare Player

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Test

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