[Koha] Running koha from removable media

[Fred.King at Medstar.net]

This sounds like a job for Koha VMWare! [cue dramatic music, but where did 
they put the phone booth?] The uncompressed VMWare image of Koha 3.0 won't 
fit on a 2GB stick/card, but it fits on a 4GB one with room to spare. And 
the VMWare player can be downloaded for free. 
I haven't tried running a full-fledged production Koha system from a 
VMWare image myself (I'm learning Koha in my spare time, which has been in 
short supply the past few months), but I don't think it would present too 
many difficulties. Has anyone else here tried it? 

Fred King
Medical Librarian, Washington Hospital Center
fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6221

koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz wrote on 01/14/2009 03:27:41 AM:

> Krishnan,
> 
> This is a great start. The intention for this concept is to provide 
> remote knowledge centre’s with a simple way to use their computer to
> monitor their books, CD’s and DVD’s , in places without tech support
> or reliable computers.
> These remote communities don’t get support or funding to purchase a 
> library management system and so I am wondering if it would be very 
> difficult to make a USB stick library management system.  A copy 
> could be made – one for the administrator as the master and one for 
> the public to use for browsing.  Any changes can be made on the 
> ‘admin stick’, duplicating this at any time  would update the 
publicdatabase.
> 
>  It would be best if it could be run from within a Windows 
> environment without having to boot from the stick. This way, any 
> computer that is working (desktop PC or a laptop) could be used to 
> host the USB stick and software. Most of these remote libraries 
> would have less than 1000 items total. Some have Internet – some 
> don’t. I have started a blog with a map showing where they all are : 
> http://ikcnetwork.blogspot.com/
> 
> I might try and create mu own kitchen sink!
> 
> Cheerio,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> James Leech  Project officer - Keeping Culture Strong 
> State Library of Queensland - Cairns  Reef Terminal Building  Level 
> 1, 1 Spence Street, Cairns  Qld  4870  P.O. Box 2352, Cairns, 4870
> mob:  0407 674 378   wk:(07) 4031 3232    hm: (07) 4095 2724    fax:
> (07) 4031 1234 


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