Arramagong GISVM as a Virtual Machine

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

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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.

Live GIS Disc Quick Start

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