<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello Joy,<div><br></div><div>Perhaps you already know your options...</div><div>a) If you need any of the Windows boxes to be available all the time, try 'virtualization' to run Linux 'alongside' Windows. This usually needs a lot more resources (like memory) than is normal for the everyday desktop.</div><div><br></div><div>If you run Windows Vista, you probably already have a glut of memory on it.</div><div><br></div><div>b) Else, install Linux on one of the Windows boxes to make a dual-boot machine. You can boot into and out of Linux/Windows whenever you wish, and install Koha on Linux</div><div><br></div><div>The 'old, clunky XP' machines will do just fine. PC manufacturers and Wintel perpetuate the myth that every year or two, one needs a brand new box with twice the memory and processing power...</div><div><br></div><div>c) Try an older version of Koha
(like 2.2.9) that has a Windows install. This is not really recommended, but it should serve most needs.</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>krishnan<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 6/9/09, Joy Payton <i><joy.payton.aci@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Joy Payton <joy.payton.aci@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Koha] windows install fail... not sure of next steps.<br>To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>Date: Sunday, 6 September, 2009, 6:36 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1117447422">re: linux. I'd love to install on Linux but I don't have a linux machine or even a dedicated windows server. What I have is a computer lab with 3 vista computers, 4 old clunky XP, and the occasional laptop that floats in or out. Any way to make koha feasible on a windows vista box, or do I abandon koha and look elsewhere? I'm not wedded to the idea of
koha, I'm just looking for the best open-source web-access bibliographic (no circulation, just plain access to and capacity to easily add bibliographic records) engine. Tips? <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/5 Chris Cormack <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chris@bigballofwax.co.nz" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=chris@bigballofwax.co.nz">chris@bigballofwax.co.nz</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex;" class="gmail_quote">2009/9/6 Joy Payton <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:joy.payton.aci@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=joy.payton.aci@gmail.com">joy.payton.aci@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Hi Friends,<br>><br>> I'm migrating an old clunky Access DB of bibliographic records to something<br>> more platform and software-independent, a web-based open-source solution. I<br>> started with Greenstone, which seems ok for static data, but it's really a<br>
> chore to get new records in the system (especially for non-techies, which<br>> most of my sisters -- I'm a nun working on a convent library -- definitely<br>> aren't). I've heard that Koha is better, but I can*not* get the darn thingç<br>
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<div class="im"><span></span>> to install.<br>><br></div>Greenstone and Koha are for 2 totally different things. Greenstone is<br>a digital repository and Koha a library management system.<br>Greenstone you store digital content in, and search over. Koha you run<br>
a library with.<br><br>So first off which is it you actually want to do? Secondly the windows<br>version is hideously out of date. You are far better off installing<br>the latest stable version on linux.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
Chris<br></font></blockquote></div><br>
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