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The capture card I bought for my surveillance was, according to vendor, not compatible with Windows, so they had formated the computer (without consulting me, only my wife), and installed Windows XP. Since I have as much experience setting up a Windows Server as maintaining an engine (almost nothing, I know how to change air filters and oil, so I can set up a simple ftp or web service), there are no way I can set up additional services now. (If you wander what I am talking about, ready my two previous entries).
At first I was set to reformat the entire server and install Linux again, than I thought about Linux on a Stick. Now I do not know what to do. I want to set it up on Linux, but since the vendor insists it will not work in other than Windows, I am not sure what to do. At the moment there is a completely passive wlan card, that was intended for remote maintenance. I want it to work in Linux, but the vendor said that the card supported for Linux was 4 times more expensive.
The wlan card inside is not supported by linux, so I use ndiswrapper to get it up and running, and I have read similar drivers are available for video caption, so I want to try it out.
But maybe I will let it all wait until I can afford buying a new computer. The system now is a really outdated Pentium4 system, with IDE hard drives. A 80GB IDE harddisk costed the same as an 350GB S-ATA, so the future is definitely to change the disks to S-ATA.
Well, that means that the WMS/TMS system, and the map updates will have to wait, how long is still not decided.
Discussion
Comment from akuckartz on 30 October 2009 at 06:07
Do you have a license to use Windows XP?
Anyway: replace the hardware with something which works with Linux.
Comment from pauliusz on 30 October 2009 at 08:22
So what is the model of your capture card?
If PCI, then what lspci says about it?
If USB, then what lsusb says about it?
Comment from agallaher on 30 October 2009 at 13:54
use the WUBI install to have an install of UBUNTU 9.04 which will co-exist with windows VOILA Linux in 3 steps. Go to the following URL:
http://wubi-installer.org/
Comment from Skippern on 30 October 2009 at 21:07
akuckartz, I hope those who formated the system entered a valid register key, though that is not common in Brazil.
pauliusz, I know how to get the information about what is installed, and how to find out experiences with it in Linux. That is how I got the wlan card working, using NDISWRAPPER
agallaher, I will take a look at WUBI, had plans about testing with Linux on a Stick, found a page about installing Ubuntu on a pendrive, that give me the ability to test the solution without formating the windows. i.e. no need to reformat it and install everything in case I cannot get it working in Linux.