[aprssig] Xastir on Windows, was Re: Slashdot article

[A.J. Farmer]

...Most current laptops don't have floppy drives anymore.   The floppy bay 
...has been superseded in many machines with some sort of multi-slot 
...flashcard reader/writer.

No floppy drive?  No problem.  Make an AprsDOS bootable CD...  It is very
easy to do.  I have one set up so that it boots from the CD, creates a RAM
drive then unpacks AprsDOS to the RAM drive and runs it from there.  It
works on any computer that can boot from a CD and it never touches the hard
drive so the existing computer configuration is never touched.

73!

A.J. Farmer, AJ3U
http://www.aj3u.com


-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]
On Behalf Of Stephen H. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:24 PM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Xastir on Windows, was Re: Slashdot article



Robert Bruninga wrote on 1/5/2005, 3:19 PM:

 > I hate to say this, but:
 > For what its worth, APRSdos can be built to boot and
 > run with local maps from a floppy disk.  Maps are not
 > good for "dispatch" but they are ideal for HAM radio
 > communications and knowing where all your assets
 > are in its communications network...
 >
 > And the PC does not even have to have a working
 > hard drive.  It can run from the Floppy drive.  Once them
 > maps are loaded, the drive is never accesssed again.

Most current laptops don't have floppy drives anymore.   The floppy bay 
has been superseded in many machines with some sort of multi-slot 
flashcard reader/writer.

If you want to boot from a removable medium, it has to be a bootable CD 
ROM.

[Most machines won't boot from flash memory cards or USB keychain 
drives, even if they are formatted with "/s" switch to put DOS boot 
files on them.]




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