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- fozzieb - 2010-02-09 10:17
Hyralak Wrote:Hi,
I have v12 installed on usb with unetbootin I am looking for some insight as to why my changes are not being saved. I HAVE logged in as root to install wicd to enable wireless N. I also have unmuted my sound in alsamixer when logged in as root. When I reboot wicd is no longer installed and my sound is muted again
Zotac ION
No HDD
No CDROM
By default, I think doing it this way just tricks the installer to thinking it is on a cd, there for it does not write back to media.
I may be wrong but i think there is another step you have to take.
- TxDot - 2010-02-09 16:17
Bahndit Wrote:TxDot,I had to go into the BIOS settings and change it so that the USB "hard drive" was the first in the hard drive boot order. IIRC, just setting it in the usual boot order section didn't work. It's been a while since I did this but if you can't figure it out I'll see if I can go back through the process.
How did you install via a USB Stick? I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.
- DeanM3 - 2010-02-09 18:45
Sorry to ask this question again, but it wasn't answered before.
Is there any downside to using this on a non-ION geforce 9-series motherboard? I.e. are they are kernell specific ATOM stuff that wouldn't not work well with a Core 2 Duo?
thanks in advance.
- Bahndit - 2010-02-09 21:51
TxDot Wrote:I had to go into the BIOS settings and change it so that the USB "hard drive" was the first in the hard drive boot order. IIRC, just setting it in the usual boot order section didn't work. It's been a while since I did this but if you can't figure it out I'll see if I can go back through the process.
I can get my box to boot from the USB stick. However, when I select "install to harddrive" option in the boot menu the Debian installer hangs "because it can't mount the cd-rom drive"
I can install from a CD but I am tired of burning discs. I know I can upgrade via cli. But I am often helping friends build XBMC machines and I would rather just be able to do a new install to a hard drive from a USB stick with the image on it (especially since ernham keeps pumping out all of these great revisions).
Thanks,
Bahndit
- Hyralak - 2010-02-09 23:12
fozzieb Wrote:By default, I think doing it this way just tricks the installer to thinking it is on a cd, there for it does not write back to media.
I may be wrong but i think there is another step you have to take.
Thanks fozzieb, that led me to find the following information:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=49781
Which i then proceeded to execute the following commands:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/live-rw bs=1M count=2048
mkfs.ext3 -F /mnt/live-rw
By running those commands I now have the ability to save my changes on a 2 gig section of my USB stick.
Big thank you to erhnam for creating this release, it is greatly appreciated!
- Shank - 2010-02-10 01:10
Hi!
I Installed Spotify according to these instructions
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/akezeke/spotyxbmc/README
After that XBMC do no longer autostart, instead I end with the tty1 prompt just as if x does not start.
All help welcome!
- TxDot - 2010-02-10 02:29
Bahndit Wrote:I can get my box to boot from the USB stick. However, when I select "install to harddrive" option in the boot menu the Debian installer hangs "because it can't mount the cd-rom drive"Make sure that this "cdrom-detect/try-usb=true" exists in the command line in file \boot\grub\menu.lst for the option you're selecting. It's likely got a title line of this; title Install XBMCLive to disk
I can install from a CD but I am tired of burning discs. I know I can upgrade via cli. But I am often helping friends build XBMC machines and I would rather just be able to do a new install to a hard drive from a USB stick with the image on it (especially since ernham keeps pumping out all of these great revisions).
Thanks,
Bahndit
- Creedo - 2010-03-18 12:10
I have a problem with resolution. The res. I want doesn't come up in settings. I've read about making changes in the xorg.conf so I tried to follow a guide.
I am a total beginner at Linux so I don't know if I am doing it right. The guide told me to edit xorg.conf using the command "sudo nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf".
I ctrl+alt+f1 out, logged in and the wrote the exact code as above. Now I seem to enter som sort of editor but it is totally blank. Why? Shouldn't there be alot of text here?
I am using the XBMCfreak Live CD installed to a HDD. My TV is connected using the VGA.
When I had only ubuntu installed I could change the settings using the nvidia program installed with the drivers.
Please help a total beginner i linux.
- fidoboy - 2010-03-18 13:54
You should write the path using the same uppercases and lowercases. The X in X11 is uppercase, so the right command is:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
regards,
- Creedo - 2010-03-18 23:18
fidoboy Wrote:You should write the path using the same uppercases and lowercases. The X in X11 is uppercase, so the right command is:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
regards,
*facepalm*
How could I not notice that...
Thanks alot.
So I tried that and it worked so I moved on with the guide and now I face another problem.
I am supposed to set up a logfile for the TV's edid modes. First I killed xbmc the i wrote "cd~", nothing seemed to happen so I moved on writing "X -verbose 6 > ~/xlog.txt 2>&1" and the screen went blank.
Now I am supposed to kill X by pressing ctrl+c but nothing happened, screen still blank. So I pressed ctrl+alt+f1 and returend to the terminal. Here I pressed ctrl+c and it seemed to halt the previous command.
But how do I access the xlog.txt file? If I write /home/xbmc/xlog.txt I only get the response that the file does not exist.
I really need to find me some linux for dummies guide.:o