OpenStreetMap
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 The system now is a really outdated Pentium4 system, with IDE hard drives.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
Komentārs no akuckartz @ 30 oktobrī 2009 @ 06:07
Do you have a license to use Windows XP?
Anyway: replace the hardware with something which works with Linux.
Komentārs no pauliusz @ 30 oktobrī 2009 @ 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?
Komentārs no agallaher @ 30 oktobrī 2009 @ 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/
Komentārs no Skippern @ 30 oktobrī 2009 @ 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.