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- anthonyb1985 - 2009-12-03 03:37

Has anyone been able to successfully install Live 9.11 b1 on a partition?

Curious as to the steps. I tried guided partitioning but it fails. Went into windows and created a logical partition but cant figure out how to tell xbmc to install to it.

Edit: Nevermind

- szsori - 2009-12-04 00:56

So, I'm looking at getting a Revo and have 2 questions:
1. Is the extra 1GB of ram necessary for HD playback, or just recommended?
2. I only have component inputs until I get my project later this winter. Can it output to component using the VGA port and an adapter or should I wait for now?

Thanks to anyone that can help. Wink

- Qooop - 2009-12-04 03:54

szsori Wrote:So, I'm looking at getting a Revo and have 2 questions:
1. Is the extra 1GB of ram necessary for HD playback, or just recommended?
2. I only have component inputs until I get my project later this winter. Can it output to component using the VGA port and an adapter or should I wait for now?

Thanks to anyone that can help. Wink


For the Live version the stock 1GB RAM is fine. I am pretty sure I have used the VGA port to connect to a monitor, but not positive.

- Qooop - 2009-12-04 03:56

arkainus Wrote:Thank you so much for your reply! I went ahead and installed the older version mentioned in the article and play around with it, familliarize myself, but now that I have confirmation Beta-1 works I will give that a try.

Incidentally, have you tried the navi-x plugin? Since reading up on plugins, that one has gotten me very excited to try it out.

I don't know what it is but will look into it. The Repo installer is great but I can't find XBMC Lyrics yet.

- arkainus - 2009-12-04 17:58

szsori Wrote:So, I'm looking at getting a Revo and have 2 questions:
1. Is the extra 1GB of ram necessary for HD playback, or just recommended?
2. I only have component inputs until I get my project later this winter. Can it output to component using the VGA port and an adapter or should I wait for now?

Thanks to anyone that can help. Wink

I've been switching between the vga and hdmi port. If you use the vga you are going to have to use the headphone jack to do audio out, but other than that I haven't ran into any problems.

- arkainus - 2009-12-04 18:00

Qooop Wrote:I don't know what it is but will look into it. The Repo installer is great but I can't find XBMC Lyrics yet.

I saw the xbox lyrics in one of the repositories I thought... when I get home I'lll see if I can find it again.

- szsori - 2009-12-04 19:26

arkainus Wrote:I've been switching between the vga and hdmi port. If you use the vga you are going to have to use the headphone jack to do audio out, but other than that I haven't ran into any problems.

Thanks for the info. Are you just doing VGA to a monitor, or have you gotten VGA to composite or component working? I really need VGA to component working in order to use with my Mitsubishi 48", at least until I get my Optoma HD20. Smile

- Qooop - 2009-12-05 14:07

arkainus Wrote:I've been switching between the vga and hdmi port. If you use the vga you are going to have to use the headphone jack to do audio out, but other than that I haven't ran into any problems.

I have an old Turtle Beach USB optical audio adapter that works good. After I hooked it up I went to the settings and it had an option for a USB device so I selected it and it works. Every once in a while it will start having some problems on a song, twice I have noticed it. I never heard a problem when using the HDMI as audio. Also, there are a couple different options when using the USB device and one of them made the music play about 10% too fast.

- axium - 2009-12-06 18:27

Im getting stuck in the ubuntu installer. Can anyone help?

I've added the "cdrom-detect/try-usb=true" line to the installer, but I'm getting stuck with "no common cd-rom was detected".

[Edit] - Im trying to install 9.11 beta1.

This is what my syslinux.cfg looks like.

default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
menu title UNetbootin
timeout 100

label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit boot=live vga=788 splash module=nvidia quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=autostart,tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry0
menu label XBMCLive - NVIDIA GPU
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live vga=788 splash module=nvidia quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=autostart,tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry1
menu label XBMCLive - NVIDIA GPU, SAFE MODE
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live module=nvidia quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry2
menu label XBMCLive - ATI/AMD GPU
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live vga=788 splash module=amd quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=autostart,tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry3
menu label XBMCLive - ATI/AMD GPU, SAFE MODE
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/ubninit boot=live module=amd quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry4
menu label XBMCLive - Intel GPU
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live vga=788 splash quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=autostart,tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry5
menu label XBMCLive - Intel GPU, SAFE MODE
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/ubninit boot=live quiet persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules skipconfig union=aufs xbmc=tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0

label ubnentry6
menu label Install XBMCLive to disk
kernel /install/vmlinuz
append initrd=/install/initrd.gz vga=normal quiet preseed/file=/cdrom/install/preseed.cfg/cdrom-detect/try-usb=true --

label ubnentry7
menu label Memory test (memtest86+)
kernel /live/memtest
append initrd=/ubninit

- BennyB - 2009-12-06 20:33

Thanks all for the advice and the very quick responses, i've finally managed to get this installed on the machine now. But I ended up having to borrow a windows laptop with a CD drive attached (I only have mac that has a CD Rom attahced), burning the iso and booting up from the CD and creating the USB from there.

Now I can't seem to work out how to install the skin. I was assuming i'd just FTP it up, but where is the skin folder? I'm looking under /home/xbmc and I only have video, pictures and music under the directory? Any ideas.

Thanks
Ben