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- wyild1 - 2011-02-20 02:11
Ok lol im wrong! I used a different laptop and was able to boot and it is a 64bit install. Why is that? was that because the server it was made of is 64bit? Anyway to make a 32bit image on a 64bit server?
Cheers!
- opdenkamp - 2011-02-20 04:39
nope, not possible (yet).
- wyild1 - 2011-02-20 04:46
OK, well is it possible then to create the image in lets say OpenBox running 32bit Ubuntu, and just copy it back over to said server?
- opdenkamp - 2011-02-20 04:51
sure. the image can be copied to any server you like. you just can't create an image for another arch yet.
- Terriblez - 2011-02-23 23:31
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I believe my problem starts here, because it cant download all the files?
and creating an image fails...
Anything i can do to fix it`?
- opdenkamp - 2011-02-23 23:49
you made a typo. it's lars-opdenkamp, not lars-odenkamp
- Terriblez - 2011-02-24 10:02
failed copy/pastetnx
- HeinrichHarrer - 2011-02-26 00:17
dushmaniac Wrote:create a directory /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg and create a file "default" in that dir.
put this in the file:
replace x.x.x.x by your server's ipCode:
DEFAULT vmlinuz ro initrd=initrd.img nbdroot=x.x.x.x nbdport=2000 xbmcdir=nfs=x.x.x.x:/var/lib/xbmc-diskless/overlay xbmc=autostart quiet splash
At the moment I have installed xbmc-diskless-server package and configured Ubuntu's dhcp server as described in this thread. After copying the files (pxelinux.0, initrd.img and vmlinuz), I tried to boot my asrock 330 from LAN. At the start up sequence it tries to load several files, including pxelinux.cfg/default, but gives the following error message:
Quote: Unable to locate configuration file
Having read some of the posts, I checked whether /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default had been created properly, which is the case.
What can I do to fix this?
- ToKy - 2011-03-03 15:05
Thanks for putting time in getting this done.
I'm having some problems running this script, (/bin/grep: /var/lib/xbmc-diskless/target/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*: No such file or directory) I'll look at the code later, just some suggestions for now:
1. you should allow users to point to a pre-downloaded iso
2. should provide paths of where stuff is being placed
- opdenkamp - 2011-03-03 15:15
I haven't spent time on this lately (pvr development is taking most of my time).
@HeinrichHarrer:
sounds like pxelinux.0 is loaded but it can't find it's config files. the pxelinux.cfg directory has to be in the same directory as pxelinux.0 if you're using the suggested configuration.
@ToKy:
the script isn't checking for return codes properly at some places. something probably went wrong when the ppa entries were added to sources.list
1) what do you mean by pre-downloaded image? a prebuilt squashfs image? in that case you shouldn't be using the first three options ("create", "pack" or "upgrade").
2) you can change the paths in the config files. not sure if I documented that, but there's a default config in /etc/default/xbmc-diskless.conf that will be overridden by /etc/xbmc-diskless.conf if it's present. you can configure all paths there.