Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Gerry Creager
Tom Russo wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:16:50AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: I have a 3 year old laptop (Windows XP) that I could dedicate to this. I have to wipe the disk anyway. Wh

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > But that developer (me) wouldn't recommend FreeBSD for anyone other than > hardcore Unix geeks. It's better for server systems than desktops (in my > current opinion after over 15 years of using it), and not well suited for > a first non-windows system. I'

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:16:50AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: > > > I have a 3 year old laptop (Windows XP) that I could dedicate to > > this. I have to wipe the disk anyway. What Linux

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:53:19AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: > > > From a laptop at a ground search incident command, I would like to > > track, and plot the tracks of, up to 20 GPS unit

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: > I have a 3 year old laptop (Windows XP) that I could dedicate to > this. I have to wipe the disk anyway. What Linux do I want? Do I > reformat the disk before installing Linux? What do I do about > various device drivers? You'll get various votes on th

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Tolbert
Thank you very much for the note! It is very helpful. Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: From a laptop at a ground search incident command, I would like to track, and plot the tracks of, up to 20 GPS units on ground searchers. It seems from what I have read that the

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: > > > Garmin Rinos within 5 miles of the search incident command would be > > a workable alternative. > > This seems pretty optimistic. I don't know about the Rinos, but in > my very limited experienc

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: > From a laptop at a ground search incident command, I would like to > track, and plot the tracks of, up to 20 GPS units on ground searchers. > It seems from what I have read that the Garmin Rino units with Xastir & > GPSman will do this. > > I have downloa

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Garmin Rinos within 5 miles of the search incident command would be a workable alternative. This seems pretty optimistic. I don't know about the Rinos, but in my very limited experience with FRS radios 5mi seems to be a bit much for them,

[Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Tolbert
I apologize in advance for the dumb questions and know that this is probably covered somewhere, but I have been unable to find it. Could some one give me directions to a recipe, or give me a recipe, to get this working? From a laptop at a ground search incident command, I would like to track