K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Before you read further: this is an experimental package, definitely not > ready for prime time. Please play with it only to help get it working > properly. > > FOIA VistA 20060923 Audita is a packaging of FOIA VistA SemiVivA > 20060923 with Oralux 0.7 alpha (see http://oralux.org and > http://lists.freearchive.org/pipermail/oralux/2006-May/001137.html) > which in turn is a remastering of the Knoppix 4.02 Linux live CD > (http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html). > > Oralux 0.7 boots up Linux that supposedly speaks the listener's choice > of six languages - Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, > Russian, Spanish. I used the emacspeak interface with English for my > testing. > > Oralux boots into an emacs session with emacspeak, and an emacs tutorial > is available from that emacs session. To get a shell inside an emacs > buffer, type Alt-X s h e l l ENTER or ESC x s h e l l ENTER. Commands > are typed at the shell. I recommend changing the default directory of > the shell to /home/knoppix by executing the command "cd ~". > > The use of FOIA VistA 20060923 Audita is basically the same as any VistA > live CD, and requires a read-write file system to be mounted for the > database. Everything else runs off the CD ROM or of a RAM file system. > > The read-write file system for the database can be a Linux file system > (e.g., ext3, jfs) or a Windows FAT file system, but not a Windows NTFS > file system. The file /etc/fstab (type "cat /etc/fstab" in a shell in > emacs to list it; it can also be brought into an edit buffer) will give > a list of partitions that Knoppix detected on boot-up. A USB flash > drive will have an entry in /etc/fstab such as "/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat > noauto,users,exec 0 0" and a Linux file system on hard drive will have > an entry such as "/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0". > > Mount the read-write storage with a command such as "mount /mnt/sda1" > and create a directory within it called myVistA with a command such as > "mkdir /mnt/sda1/myVistA". Link to it from the knoppix home directory > with a command such as "ln -s /mnt/sda1/myVistA /home/knoppix/". > > I have not reworked the "vista" script to avoid the use of Xdialog, > which is not included in Oralux. So, for now, please use the following > commands to create the initial database (this assumes that you have > changed directory to /home/knoppix and that myVistA is a symbolic link > to the directory with read/write storage, e.g., /mnt/sda1/myVistA: > > 1. Create the directory structure: mkdir -p myVistA/{p,r,tmp} > myVistA/gtm_V5.1-000/{g,o,p,r} > > 2. Install the database: gzip -d > </usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923/g/mumps.dat.gz > >myVistA/gtm_V5.1-000/g/mumps.dat > > To run VistA, first set the appropriate terminal type for use inside an > emacs buffer: export TERM=Eterm > Then execute VistA: /usr/local/FOIAVistA/vista --run ~/myVistA > You will probably need to set the terminal type inside VistA to be a > dumb terminal. > > Known annoyance: you must explicitly set $ZROUtines once inside GT.M > (one long line here - watch for breaks caused by mailers): set > $ZRO="/home/knoppix/myVistA/gtm_V5.1-000/o(/home/knoppix/myVistA/gtm_V5.1-000/p > > /home/knoppix/myVistA/gtm_V5.1-000/r /home/knoppix/myVistA/p > /home/knoppix/myVistA/r) > /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923/gtm_V5.1-000/o(/usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923/gtm_V5.1-000/p > > /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923/gtm_V5.1-000/r > /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923/p /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060923/r)" > I don't know why the environment doesn't get properly passed in. > > Once you are at the GTM> prompt and have set $ZROutines, commands such > as "s DUZ=1 d Q^DI" appear to work. Also, a direct connect server for > CPRS GUI connections is enabled at port 9297. You will of course have > to start the Taskman background processes, but you don't need the > call-back broker. > > Oh, yes, in case I forgot to mention earlier: this is an experimental > package not ready for prime time. Please send comments to me (as well > as fixes if you figure them out). Thank you for your help in making > VistA more accessible. > > -- Bhaskar
Hi K.S. Bhasker, I couldn't help wondering, having read the above, why you need to create a database in the manner you describe? IIRC the commands you mention such as "mount /mnt/sda1" relate to earlier Knoppix versions than 4.02. The /mnt directory is mostly empty in recent Knoppix versions and a USB flash drive will appear under the /media directory. Knoppix moved to the UnionFS system when version 3.8 was introduced. "UnionFS transparently mounts a portion of the systems's RAM (/ramdisk) on top of / (root of the knoppix CD filesystem). This enables the user to do things that were practically impossible such as using apt-get to update the apt DB and install software. And note that apt-get stores the downloaded .deb archive files in /var/cache/apt/archive." See http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17570 I haven't used Knoppix for a while, so I might be mistaken. Best of luck with your project. Regards, Mark Preston
