[LINUX] HOW-TO achieve XBMC nirvana with an Acer Aspire Revo 1600 and Ubuntu

thermite451 Wrote:You can pm me and I'll catch you on IM if you have AIM or Gmail.

I'll walk you through it right quick

PM sent. Thanks.

I am currently downloading/seeding the torrent and hoping to transfer it to a 8Gb USB flash drive. Prior to this install, I was using FREAK edition XBMC LIVE 8 and everything works fine aside from AAC 6.1 audio so I am hoping this fixes the problem. The voices do not come through whatever settings I try.

As per the original poster, I am also setting up my Revo 1600 to a receiver (Onkyo 606) and an Espson 8100Hd projector so hopefully the xbmc system will be tweaked as needed.

My question is how to transfer this partimage to the USB using either Win 7 or OSX.
Any help with be appreciated !

Thermite,

I tried restoring the image but hit a snag. Your partition is too big! The only way to install your partition is to exactly match your partition table which means deleting existing setup. I have the XBMX Freak version installed and it works pretty well except for jitter in a few of my Planet Earth rips.

Any chance you can modify the partimage to just have a 10 GB partition? Easy way to do would be to resize your sda1 partition losslessly to 10 GB and recreate the partimage....Anyway, I know I am asking too much since you have already done a lot.

You ask a valid question and I'll try to give you a sane-ish response.

1) I'll look into trimming it down
2) If you're a linux / vm guy: Restore it to a vm hard drive, resize it, re-export it

(Which is roughly what I'm going to do later)

other than that, cheers

Also, I walked another member through the restoration process last night with good effect. I'm going to try to codify the IM notes from that into a walkthrough (if anyone knows how to automate fdisk... that'd be awesome)

I was the one who was helped with the installation, however I have not had a chance to play around with it yet. I will let you guys know how it goes later.

Thermite,

Thanks for recommendation. I am pretty comfortable with linux but I am not too familiar with vm HDs. Could you provide a link?

Someday I will write a book on all of this - oh what fun....And, I do get amused when people write they wanna bang the htpc against a wall..I can empathize...

UPDATE: The build that is being posted is PERFECT! There is not even the slightest jittering, and underneath XBMC is a fully functional Ubuntu client.

This build will stream any 1080p content you throw at it with no problems at all on the 1600.... heck this should be required by anyone who has a 1600.

TYVM Thermite for all your help. I will be seeding this build for a long time to share it to all in need.

evomac Wrote:UPDATE: The build that is being posted is PERFECT! There is not even the slightest jittering, and underneath XBMC is a fully functional Ubuntu client.

This build will stream any 1080p content you throw at it with no problems at all on the 1600.... heck this should be required by anyone who has a 1600.

TYVM Thermite for all your help. I will be seeding this build for a long time to share it to all in need.

Mind giving a run down of how to install it using either win7 or osx ? Preferably to a USB flash.

Gmac, it won't work to another OS as this is a system image of the entire machine. (i.e. it blows away anything on the disk and drops in a fully functional Ubuntu/XBMC install).

Evomac - awesome that it worked for you!

Anyone have a quick writeup on how to do this?