[RELEASE] Disk Mount Addon (for XBMC Live and XBMC for Linux)

XBMCLive does not mount internal disks by default (due to risks in combination with certain advanced setups).
This is a bit of a problem for new users-

I have made a disk mounter for xbmcLive.
It can:

1. temporaly mount any available partitions. (by executing the diskmounter script)
2. remove nodiskmount from grub
3. add nodiskmount to grub
   

The idea is that this should make the experience for "normal end-users" better.

Install this repo
http://github.com/vikjon0/qf-xbmc-addons...addons.zip

or only this add-on (no updates this way)
https://github.com/downloads/vikjon0/qf-...-0.0.4.zip


Installation, download to target machine or USB. in XBMC go to /system/add-ons/install from zip and select the zip file.

This is a great idea considering the amount of "mounting" related questions we get in the forums, nice one. I tested briefly and it worked perfect. I'm sure this will help many users new to linux.

cheers

Nice! Did you make it availbale in a repository? It would be nice if it was.

Quote:Nice! Did you make it availbale in a repository?

I would like to but I wanted some feedback first. Perhaps it needs some development before it can go in? This is the first few lines of code I write in linux.

Quote:This is a great idea considering the amount of "mounting" related questions we get in the forums

Thank you Harry, that was the aim.
//J

Hi I read through the code and considering you are updating and altering grub boot this script is not really good on non-live systems. On Live systems its a great thing. I would have liked to see a check if its live at the very least but we are looking into making it filterable so that only live systems even sees it in the addon browser. This is why it got pulled from the repo, sorry for that

Cheers,
Tobias

Quote: I would have liked to see a check if its live

I am happy with adding a few checks, but how do you define "live"? I would prefer the definition: package xbmc-live installed.

vikjon0 Wrote:I am happy with adding a few checks, but how do you define "live"? I would prefer the definition: package xbmc-live installed.

I don't blame you for not doing the checks since I don't even know how and what to check for But yeah looking for xbmc-live installed might be valid, another is that the xbmc-live do change the host IIRC to xbmc-live so that might be the simplest albeit rather crude. In an ideal world you really shouldn't worry about it and it should be filtered by the addon manager but might be sane to have some checks even if they are crude.

Cheers,
Tobias

You are talking about hostname? Google doesnt tell me what IIRC is...

Quote:xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ cat /etc/hostname
XBMCLive

If you are fine with it I would prefer to check for xbmc-live package. I already have the code in another project (wifi add-on using wicd-daemon and with auto install of wicd-daemon). I just need to check for xbmc-live instead.

Quote:def check_installed():
p = os.popen("dpkg -L xbmc-live")
s = p.read()
if s == "":
return False
else:
return True

vikjon0 Wrote:You are talking about hostname? Google doesnt tell me what IIRC is...

IIRC is the abbreviation for "If I Remember Correctly" so it has nothing to do with the problem