[talk-au] Making a laptop Into a Big-Screen GPS (cont.)

[John Smith]

On 3 June 2010 13:31, Eraina and Richard jenkins <richardvk1rj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.      Where is there a tutorial/howto/whatever for Navit.  For me
> it comes up with a blank screen ... and no maps.  I did attempt to
> download some maps for SE Australia ... so, how do I proceed from this
> point??

I wrote myself a cheat sheet some time ago, I just uploaded it to the wiki:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Debian_plus_EeePC_plus_Navit

> 2.      At least two people suggested that an eeepc 701 would make a
> great GPS using Navit.  I'd love to find a howto for this because I
> have one sitting on my desk ... and I could do a simple PS to run it
> off the car electrics.  Mine is the 4 meg model ... currently running
> easy-peasy.

On the 2G model I found it useful getting a 4G sdcard and running the
OS from that and using the internal ssd for /home