A GNU/Linux installation to be deployed on USB disks (or to be used as a virtual machine or installable live dvd), with many ready to use FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) GIS programs/tools installed in it.
Version 05 (22 March 2010)
- Services and customizations
- Advantages
- Requirements
- Screenshots
- Operating System & Software Installed
- Download
- How to deploy the disk image on a usb drive
- More details
- Final notes
- Changelog
Services and customizations:
Please inquiry us for questions, availability and prices
- Faunalia.pt can provide ready to use 8gb (or bigger) usb pen drives
- Choose your preferred pen drive model and have it personalized (depends on usb drive model) with custom graphics
- Customisation of grub/splash screen/login screen/desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, etc.) and menus
- Choice to use the system as a Virtual Machine or Live DVD instead of deploying it on a USB drive
- Choice of programs/tools to be installed
- Custom configuration to fit your existing work environment
- Updates and Support
- Training for all the included software
Advantages:
- Deploy quickly ready to use GIS systems
- Present your work at congresses and seminars
- Just GPL software, no worries with licences
Requirements
A 4GB (or bigger) USB pen drive and a PC that can boot from USB devices (booting from usb is not necessary to use the system as a virtual machine).
Screenshot
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Operating System
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10 GNU/Linux with the GNOME Desktop Environment
Username: faunalia
Password: faunalia
Software Installed
- QGis 1.5 dev (rev. 13140) + GRASS plugin
- Grass 6.4Rc5 with WXPyhton GUI
- Gshp2pgsql 0.4.1
- GeoServer 2.0.1
- MapServer 5.6 + Sample Dataset
- pMapper 4.0 + Sample Dataset
- PostgreSQL 8.4
- PhpPgAdmin 4.2.2
- PostGIS 1.4
- pgAdmin3 1.10
- OpenLayers 2.8 with samples
- Apache2 Web Server with PHP5
- JOSM, Openstreetmap editor
- Prune v. 08, program for loading, displaying and editing data from GPS receivers
Download
You can download the disk image HERE
Please note that the file size to download is 1.2gb
How To Deploy the image on a USB Disk
Download and uncompress the disk image (faunalia_usbgis_05.img) on your hard drive, then you'll need to use the command "dd" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)).
Under Windows you'll need to use the Windows porting for the unix dd (http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.5.zip) or you can use WinDD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/windd/).
Examples:
GNU/Linux
# dd if=faunalia_usbgis_05.img of=/dev/sdb bs=10M
where "sdb" is how your pen drive is mapped on your Linux system
Windows
With GUI, use WinDD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/windd/
Manually:
the correct way to use dd on windows resulted to be like this (you'll need to use the command line interface under Windows):
dd of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 if=c:\temp\faunalia_usbgis_05.img bs=10M --progress
where "c:\temp\faunalia_usbgis_05.img" is the path to the drive image and "\Harddisk1\Partition0" is how the USB disk is mapped on your Windows system. This example is relative to a system with one Hard Drive (with just one partition) and a USB disk plugged in.
More Details
PostgreSQL User/Password: faunalia
In PostgreSQL there is already a Geographic Database called "faunalia" (with a few layers already loaded) and a geographic database template (called "template_gis") to create further geographic databases.
GRASS, PostgreSQL, Postgis, PhpPgAdmin, Mapserver, pMapper and PgAdmin were installed using the Ubuntu repositories or other official/third party repositories.
Josm and Prune were "installed" using the binaries that is possible to download from their respective sites.
Gshp2pgsql, QGIS were compiled from sources.
If you will use a 4GB usb drive, you may want to uninstall/remove some of the software you are not going to use in order to free some space: the default setup leave you with more or less 300mb of free space. You can obviously still use the hard drive/s on your pc and/or other usb disks as storage while using this linux installation.
