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Op 01-09-11 16:18, Marie-Noëlle Augendre schreef:
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<pre wrap="">You don't even need to install a virtual box. If you look back in the
list archives, a few months ago I explained how I had used Digikam
with a simple LiveUSB; in fact, you can bring your Digikam everywhere
with you and run it on any PC.
Marie-Noëlle
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On certain occasions this could be useful to me. I can not find in
my mailbox and the archives appear hardly searchible <br>
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Could I consider the text shown beneath that has been brought up by
google as your final text?<br>
If so could it be improved in the sense that it becomes reproducable
by almost anyone regardles which platform they prefer?. <br>
I myself may not be the smartest person around but I don´t think I
could do with this text.<br>
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Rinus<br>
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<p>Anyway, I ended up with a <strong>USB</strong>-key on which I've
created 2 partitions with
Gparted: - one fat32 of about 2Gio for the <strong>Live</strong>-Fedora
system - the remaining part formatted in ext4, being available for
data.
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<p>The .iso <strong>Live</strong> system image is created on the
key with the following command:
# livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 64
<name-of-your-iso-file-system>
<destination-unmounted-device>
This setting provides 64Mb of persistent /home for the liveuser,
that allows
to keep all the settings and customization (for Gnome, <strong>Digikam</strong>,
etc.) from
one session to the other.
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<p>The first time I boot from the key, I launch <strong>Digikam</strong>
and set up the database
and first collection on the 'data' partition of the <strong>USB</strong>-key;
the key is then
ready tgo be used by an 'end-user'.
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<p>This seems to work pretty well, but hasn't been used in
production yet.
And keep in mind this <strong>USB</strong>-based <strong>Digikam</strong>
will be used only for little local
collections for quite a short time, as they will be centralized
periodically
onto a central database on disk.
My purpose here was to provide 10 to 15 team members scattered 'on
the
field' with a system ready to use so they can upload their own
pictures and
do some tagging before transferring their data to the team manager
every
couple of weeks.
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<p>This will be used in the 'real life' pretty soon. I'll let you
know if I
have to change or adapt something.
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<p>Marie-Noëlle
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2011/9/1 sleepless <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sleeplessregulus@hetnet.nl"><sleeplessregulus@hetnet.nl></a>:
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<pre wrap="">Do you want to try digiKam and/or showFoto on Ubuntu but you are running
Windows have a look at this.
Supposed you are not planning to change to Linux, or to make a dual boot
system, you can have a virtual Ubuntu running digikam on your computer.
Download from here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads">http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</a>
Choose VirtualBox (VB) for your host and download
double click on the downloaded file to install
Install Ubuntu in your VB
Open the VB Manager
Open Setting
Open Shared Folders
click the plus sign
choose the folder or drive from windows that you want to acces in ubuntu
give it a nice easy name and remember well ex. MY_WIN_DRV
select auto mount
start Ubuntu
Select in the upper menubar from VB devices
Select install host additions
Follow the instructions
If done shut down Ubuntu
Shut down Virtual Box
Open the Virtual Box again
Select The Ubuntu image
click on the green arrow to start
Go in your Ubuntu application menu
look for Terminal and open it
Once in terminal type:
cd / (mind the forward slashes (you have been a windows user accustomed to
backward slashes)
cd mnt
sudo mkdir MY_WIN_DRV
sudo mount -t vboxsf MY_WIN_DRV MY_WIN_DRV
Now type in terminal "nautilus" (without the quotes)
click filesystem
click mnt
click MY_WIN_DRV
There is all your stuff from your windows drive.
(Take care: if you did some nasty thing to the files, they are gone in
windows too, if you go there.)
Now goto Applications->Ubuntu Software Center
type in search field: digiKam or showFoto
select and install.
If you want to try a newer version goto
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621">http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/621</a>
for further details.
If problems occur, ask the list for help.
Good luck,
Rinus
If someone could add the instructions that apply to the actual installation
of Ubuntu in the Virtual Machine, it would be nice.
I used an old image to set this up, so I have no recent experience doing the
real install. That causes the omission in this how to.
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