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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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 public database.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> 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 : <a
href="http://ikcnetwork.blogspot.com/">http://ikcnetwork.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>State Library of Queensland - Cairns
Reef Terminal Building Level 1, 1 Spence Street, Cairns Qld
4870 P.O. Box 2352, Cairns, 4870<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Krishnan M [mailto:kmlist@yahoo.in] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 14 January 2009
5:01 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; James
Leech<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Koha] Running koha
from removable media</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>While i haven't tried it yet, it should certainly be
possible.<br>
<br>
The Koha installer merely adds "web resources" (perl, javascript,
images, and such), and a couple of configuration files for itself and Apache<br>
<br>
Koha depends on Apache, MySQL, and Perl language facilities plus Perl
modules. The configuration file and the database contain everything unique
that Koha "knows" about a particular installation. <br>
<br>
Indeed, very often i simply do a 'mysqldump' of Koha's database to my own USB
stick when i want to work on my library catalog on my laptop elsewhere,
instead of on the server itself. <br>
<br>
Also, i have the same database user setup, so that config files match. Also,
a user called 'koha' on the operating system itself, that owns all of Koha's
files. Of course, there are security risks with just setting up users on
multiple machines this way.<br>
<br>
i have no experience with zebra, and can't comment on its configuration.<br>
<br>
A 'lite' version on a stick might assume that these are available on the
server you plug it into, BUT have the database (and config) files on the
stick itself so you can move between servers.<br>
<br>
A 'full' version might bundle everything, but the OS. A 'kitchen-sink'
version is probably one that you can boot into with a full OS.<br>
<br>
Now, for some data: A 'du -sh /usr/share/koha' yields 316Mbytes<br>
Similar du -sh readings are as follows:<br>
316M /usr/share/koha<br>
1.4M /var/lib/mysql/koha3/<br>
476M /usr/local/share/perl/<br>
6.6M /usr/local/lib/perl/<br>
<br>
The first is all the files for Koha's "pages". The second is a
relatively freshly-installed Koha database (not much data), and the last two
are the Perl modules Koha needs (and some more). This suggests a size under 1
Gig for the whole gig (pun intended)<br>
<br>
a USB stick throws up interesting possibilities for distribution, since i
have now been supplying DVDs for Koha installs in places where no Internet is
available. More about that in later mail.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
krishnan<br>
<br>
--- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wed, 14/1/09, James Leech <i><span
style='font-style:italic'><James.Leech@slq.qld.gov.au></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: James Leech
<James.Leech@slq.qld.gov.au><br>
Subject: [Koha] Running koha from removable media<br>
To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>
Date: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009, 2:39 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Hello</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Has anyone ever heard of anyone attempting to run a simple
library management system off a USB Stick? </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>With USB sticks getting larger, and various solutions offering to
boot Linux from your portable USB stick, would it be possible to run a
version of koha that could manage a small library collection? I’m
not very cluey about client / database solutions, but I noticed one post mentioning
Koha running on a standalone PC with the client accessing the localhost.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Also, how large would a koha installation be?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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