jakeroyd
Well-Known Member
I've just removed Opencpn from my laptop cos I don't use it anymore.
so I thought I would put it on my W7 desktop just as a browser and planning aid.
On the laptop (Vista) I have to use Demon to mount an image of the iso file and mess about with the porting to get the gps serial data and use a utility to port the serial data over etc. All a PITA.
I loaded a pen drive with the charts I use , cm93 , and found that I could point Opencpn at the drive directly and see the charts displayed without doing anything else.
i could also just plug in my gps (a Maplins nd100) and see my position really easily with no messing about with ports at all?
Which left two thoughts in my mind.
1) it was so easy on w7 compared to Vista.
2) I realised I do not fully understand the difference between normal cm93 files and the iso version of the same thing. The files I used on the desktop are not Iso files and yet Opencpn could use them.
my Vista version never could.
Could someone explain to me the difference with the two file systems ?
I know an iso file is an image of a DVD but beyond that I,m a bit flummoxed.
TIA
so I thought I would put it on my W7 desktop just as a browser and planning aid.
On the laptop (Vista) I have to use Demon to mount an image of the iso file and mess about with the porting to get the gps serial data and use a utility to port the serial data over etc. All a PITA.
I loaded a pen drive with the charts I use , cm93 , and found that I could point Opencpn at the drive directly and see the charts displayed without doing anything else.
i could also just plug in my gps (a Maplins nd100) and see my position really easily with no messing about with ports at all?
Which left two thoughts in my mind.
1) it was so easy on w7 compared to Vista.
2) I realised I do not fully understand the difference between normal cm93 files and the iso version of the same thing. The files I used on the desktop are not Iso files and yet Opencpn could use them.
my Vista version never could.
Could someone explain to me the difference with the two file systems ?
I know an iso file is an image of a DVD but beyond that I,m a bit flummoxed.
TIA