Brent, By sheer coincidence, I just came across http://livecd.ominiverdi.org/ which may be exactly what you are looking for... Included software: * GRASS 6.3.0 * QGIS 0.11.0 * PostgreSQL 8.3.1 * PostGIS 1.3.1 * GDAL 1.5.0 * Proj 4.5.0 * R 2.4.1 * PgAdmin 1.6.3 * The win folder on the livecd, contains Win installer of many applications Hope this helps! Cheers, Liraz Liraz Siri wrote: > I think it could be done but this is kind of a specialized > application that it is unlikely we will get in the near future, until we > get the much more common applications out of our queue. > > Meanwhile you have several options: install the TurnKey PostgreSQL > appliance into a virtual machine such as VMware, Virtual PC or > VirtualBox, and then do the additional integration yourself. You could > then burn the virtual appliance onto DVD and take it with you to work. > > If it's worth it to you, you could also hire one of our developers to > customize TurnKey PostgreSQL and create a specialized appliance just for > you. > > Cheers, > Liraz > > Brent Wood wrote: >> Sounds great, appreciated. >> >> I've just been running a DB workshop in Oman using Postgis & also QGIS & some other FOSS tools for them to set up & manage some spatial databases. All went very well, with some enthusiasm for the freedom of FOSS solutions compared to Oracle, ESRI, etc. >> >> Which leads to my next question :-) >> >> One of the great advantages of Postgis in the situations I work in (mostly maritime/fisheries/ecological/oceanographic), is that by adding apache & UMN mapserver you also have a complete & powerful web mapserver compliant with OGC WMS & WFS Web Services to disseminate maps drawn from Postgis data. >> >> I appreciate how easy it is to add these applications via apt-get, but as I found out in Oman, there are still places that do not have good enough internet access to allow this, & I understood the whole point of the TurnKey project was to avoid such external requirements. >> >> Do you think it feasible & reasonable that a TurnKey mapserver release could be implemented, basically by adding mapserver, apache, php & php mapscript to the Postgis CD or Postgis/mapserver to the LAPP CD? They are not large packages, and I think would fill a useful niche in line with the turnkey application goals of the TurnKey project. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Brent Wood >> >> >> >> Brent Wood >> DBA/GIS consultant >> NIWA, Wellington >> New Zealand >>>>> Liraz Siri <liraz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/09/08 9:23 PM >>> >> Hi Brent, >> >> The current release of TurnKey PostgreSQL doesn't include postgis but it >> should be easy enough to add post-installation: >> >> apt-get install postgis postgresql-8.3-postgis >> >> Since the packages are quite small, we'll add them by default when we >> release the next version of the appliance. >> >> I've created a Launchpad blueprint for this feature: >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux/+spec/add-postgis-to-turnkey-postgresql >> >> If you subscribe you'll get updates. >> >> Cheers, >> Liraz -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
