This is mostly a summary of an IRC chat with Cameron and Andra…
The live dvd for the foss4g conference is shaping up[1] - but the project has not heard anything from geoserver-devel.
There is a script for geoserver from 2008 - but it does not make the cut this year it requires a manual install:
Andrea went over the above script on IRC (thanks) and mentioned a few things wrong:
- it uses the distributions tomcat[2]
- manual install step rather then copying into webapps
- we were worried about the version of Java - it is sun java 6 but we are not sure what version
So we need a replacement…
- Deegree[3] is installing their own tomcat (in order to avoid the distribution one); so perhaps we can just use our jetty?
- Looks like there are some example demo layers that everyone is supposed to have in common
We are supposed to respect the following guidelines 1) be kind to ram, 2) don’t use too much disk space (I am sure the default geoserver will be fine) 3) desktop short cut to start / stop would be a bonus.
I think the idea is to download an image from http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ and then try out a script. Additional information http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
Cheers,
Jody Garnett
[1] http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/08/easy-steps-to-get-your-project-on.html
[2] https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_tomcat6.sh
[3] https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_deegree.sh