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

[Brian B. Riley]

You can build and burn a DOS bootable CDROM. I am not sure of the details
but it can be done. I am sure the details are on the web somewhere.
-- 
Cheers ... 73 de brian, n1bq, underhill center, vermont




On 1/5/05 6:23 PM, "Stephen H. Smith" <WA8LMF2 at aol.com> wrote:

> 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 has been superseded in many machines with some sort of multi-slot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.]