[sdpd] Redhat 6.2 Linux/MS Windows Dual boot installation tutorials: Crystallography Oriented

[L.M.D.Cranswick...@dl.ac.uk]

Hope this is not considered too much off topic.
Though the two most recent programs that are Linux
available are both for solving structures from powders:

ZEFSA II GPL software for real-space method for zeolite structure 
     solution from powder diffraction data

ESPOIR for Linux" - GPL'd Monte Carlo structure solution software 
for powder diffraction. 

(web links below)

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There are some belated tutorial on the CCP14 site on installing 
Redhat Linux 6.2 and MS-Windows dual/multi-boot systems for 
Crystallographic Applications. 

The default in these installations is to have no open
ports that could be used for probing and hacker entry 
points.
    
   http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/solution/linux/linwin95a.html

Includes:
  Generic Desktop PC: Installing Redhat 6.2 on a Dual 
    Boot Win95 system via Network/FTP/HTTP Install
  
  Generic Desktop PC: Installing Redhat 6.2 on a Dual 
    Boot Win95 system via via Local CD-ROM Install

  Toshiba Tecra Laptop: Installing Redhat 6.2 on a Dual 
    Boot Win95 system via Network/FTP/HTTP Install
 
  Toshiba Tecra Laptop: Installing Redhat 6.2 on a Dual 
    Boot Win95 system via Local CD-ROM Install

This makes use of the freely available Ranish Partition 
and Boot Manager:  http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

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This is mainly optimised for getting the System S/Platon 
suite (plus System S friendly programs: Shelx, Dirdif, 
Crunch and Sir97) up and running  on a PC (streamlined 
Redhat installations do not tend to include the Fortran 
compilers).  
 http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/tutorial/platon/system_s_suite_install.html

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A list of Crystallographic (mainly small molecule and powder
diffraction oriented) programs that run on Linux but not Windows
is viewable at:
   http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/solution/linux/index.html#xtallinuxapps

The most recent addition being:
  ZEFSAII GPL software for real-space method for zeolite structure 
     solution from powder diffraction data
   http://www.mwdeem.chemeng.ucla.edu/zefsaII/
 (last updated 7 March 2000)

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Crystallographic applications and resources for Linux:
   http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/solution/linux/index.html#xtal

The most recent addition being:
"ESPOIR for Linux" - GPL'd Monte Carlo structure solution software 
for powder diffraction.  
   http://www.cristal.org/sdpd/espoir/index.html#linux
 (last updated April 2000)

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I would be happy to hear of anything missing - relevant to
getting other crystallographic analysis software installed 
and happily running. 

Lachlan.

-- 
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
    for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction
Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K
Tel: +44-1925-603703  Fax: +44-1925-603124
E-mail: l.cranswick...@dl.ac.uk  Ext: 3703  Room C14
                           http://www.ccp14.ac.uk