XBMC Live Upgrade Path

Slightly (completely) offtopic for this thread, but is the plan for the foreseeable future sticking with ubuntu as a base for the live distro?

hazeh Wrote:Slightly (completely) offtopic for this thread, but is the plan for the foreseeable future sticking with ubuntu as a base for the live distro?

Yes that is off-topic, please start a new separate thread (in the feature suggestion forum).

I´ve got a strange problem. The first time I burned my beta 2 iso to cd and chose option zero to install to a flash disk, everything worked fine. However, when I recently tried to reinstall beta 2 to my flash disk, instead of the opportunity to choose media I came directly to the xbmc login prompt. I´ve tried several times and also with a new iso download, but always with the same result. I have also tried to copy the img-files mentioned earlier in this thread but then xbmc wouldn´t start.

Is there a way to start the "install to disk" from xbmc login prompt on beta 2 iso? Or can I upgrade to beta 2 via the upgrade command? (I don´t want the latest SVN though)

Here's a new question, related to the question about updating LiveUSB. I installed from Atlantis Live to an 8GB USB key, and then while trying to get some stuff to work tried apt-get update / apt-get upgrade. Unfortunately, dpkg fails at the end of the upgrade, and now I can't run apt-get [anything] because it says that I have to re-run dpkg to reconfigure.

It looks like it's trying to set up something in /boot, which Live doesn't use.

How can I get back to a working system? Do I have to re-install Live to my USB key and start over?

Snowflake Wrote:Here's a new question, related to the question about updating LiveUSB. I installed from Atlantis Live to an 8GB USB key, and then while trying to get some stuff to work tried apt-get update / apt-get upgrade. Unfortunately, dpkg fails at the end of the upgrade, and now I can't run apt-get [anything] because it says that I have to re-run dpkg to reconfigure.

It looks like it's trying to set up something in /boot, which Live doesn't use.

How can I get back to a working system? Do I have to re-install Live to my USB key and start over?

This is exactly what I ran into the other day, I was trying to compile a custom kernel on a test bed. The upgrade update (updates 8:10) as well and it is looking for the .configure file which is normally in your /boot or /grub/boot directory which live does not use. So the update is trying to update the current config and cannot find it.

I just tried this as well and it creates an update to the intramfs.img or tried to and cannot find the file or directory as it is looking for it in the boot directory. I cannot get dpkg to work correctly either every time I get a error (2). I tried to purge it and reinstall but no dice.

Dave