Hi! (This should also be added to the FAQ)
A user just asked us how to put Taverna home directory (typically something like C:\Users\stain\AppData\Roaming-2.1.2) to be on a USB memory stick. The scenario is where Taverna itself is installed on the USB stick. As long as you are always using the same OS and the USB stick is always on the same drive letter, you may edit conf\raven-launcher.properties and set: raven.launcher.app.home=P:\\taverna (Remember double-backslash, as \t is a tabulator! ;-) ) A quite more portable solution, which I believe is the one we should recommend, is to set the app.home to a relative path, but this would require general write permission to the installation folder (which I guess you would have on the USB drive) raven.launcher.app.home=./home (This seems to work with / instead of \ - making this portable across Windows and Linux) Both taverna.exe and taverna-debug.bat will change current directory to the distribution, so this should put everything on the subfolder home/, say K:\Taverna workbench 2.1.2\home You can copy taverna.sh from the Linux distribution of Taverna if you also want to use this USB installation from Linux - although such a shared home folder has not been fully tested by us. Note that for running Taverna from any Linux machine you would also need 'dot' from graphviz (and possibly even Java) bundled into your USB stick. You could modify taverna.sh to include these on the PATH. -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/
