[LINUX] HOW-TO make a minimal install of Ubuntu on Acer Revo ION in under 25 minutes

hexland Wrote:-- how to enable auto mounting of USB flash drives and USB HDD's

I now have a working minimal ubuntu revo many, many thanks for your guide Pete. As mentioned by hexland, the only thing so far that does not seem to work is auto mounting of usb devices - any clues on how to fix that are greatly appreciated!

Pete,

Today I was re-installing my HTPC from a remastersys iso I built in vmware and I noticed that ssh did not work.
After some trouble I got it to work after re-generating all ssh keys.

In case you get the same problem

Quote:SH1 protocol
ssh-keygen -q -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N '' -t rsa1

SSH2 protocol
ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N '' -t rsa
ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N '' -t dsa

//J

Re: Usb auto-mounting

I have no idea if this is the best option, but works fine for me. I'm using a tiny package called usbmount.


By default it only supports a few format types, so:

Inside the conf file change the filesystems line to:

Save and reboot.

This'll now support windows formated usb drives. HOWEVER, there is a warning that removing your usb drives mid data-writing can and will cause data loss. As long as you don't pull it out whilst files are being written it works fine

Why should this thread be a sticky when we have loads of other HOW-TO guides that are not stickys?
http://forum.xbmc.org/tags.php?tag=how-to

Because it gained 7 pages in 7 days and the talk of the last weeks was definitely ION and how to stick xbmc onto it. I did not receive a con after asking some teammembers, so i sticked it.

If you're not ok with that - why didn't you unstick/move it?

(this goes terribly OT)

followed your guide to a T

works perfectly, and all me judder probs gone now on 1080p stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD COMPILE A LIVE VERSION OF THIS

make it so much easier to install for the revo`s and any other ion based boards.

couple of things to note though.

audio settings for me involved usingg both `hdmi`in the settings.


and i had to install `lirc` to get me remote working.


When i say all my judder problems have gone, the judder is still there, but from being almost unwatchable on some stuff its gone to hardly noticable 99% of the time.



Many many many thanks !!!!!!!!!!!

thecheekymonkey Wrote:audio settings for me involved usingg both `hdmi`in the settings.

This should be updated on the first post/page. Again: Using plughw:0,3 is not guaranteed to work on your box. Your hdmi may be another subdevice, so using the alias "hdmi" is a much safer setting:

I used this guide for my mini-ITX install and it worked very well. One question though, unlike the Live install, there's no EventClients folder that I can find; is it just not created? I did find the xbmc-* commands in /usr/bin, but on the Live version there's a /home/xbmc/EventClients (I think that's the path) folder housing all of the python scripts. I spent a bunch of time looking for the ps3d.py script in hopes of using it to get my PS3 BD remote to work. I eventually gave up and downloaded the script by itself.

Aside from that, it's a very nice process, thanks to the OP for posting.

Okay, I have to revise my statement. I cannot get any audio over HDMI. I've tried the plughw:hdmi setting and all I get when I go to play a file is an information popup stating that my audio device could not be initialized. I'm going to try the plughw:0,3 option. Is there a way to tell which subdevice has which number?

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