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RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - emagin - 2013-02-12 Well, commandline does not intimidate me when I can see it on a page and start applying it to my system. I am not at the level where I can actually just know all the commands and test on my own. Can you point me to a good guide for this in your environment? For example, if the guide assumes I have LIRC installed and I do not on mini (?) then I will get tripped up. Anyhow, just point me in the direction and I'll try. Thanks (2013-02-12, 00:06)millercentral Wrote: However, if command line interfaces, and console-based text editors intimidate you, then this may not be the most approachable way to go. RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - ChaOConnor - 2013-02-14 Bram, when you added the option for the Motorola Nyxboard, what did you add exactly? Was it the ability to suspend and wake with the power button? I found a thread detailing how to do it (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=112804&page=2) and was going to try when I get home tonight. Just curious what changes you made. OBTW, I have the Nyxboard and love it. I've tried so many remotes, this is a keeper for me. Thanks for all the hard work! RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - Bram77 - 2013-02-14 All the Nyxboard option does is apply a keymapping that in my opinion is the best. It allows for direct access to subtitle downloading + sync adjustment and audio sync adjustments (color keys), and more... RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - ChaOConnor - 2013-02-14 (2013-02-14, 17:39)Bram77 Wrote: All the Nyxboard option does is apply a keymapping that in my opinion is the best. It allows for direct access to subtitle downloading + sync adjustment and audio sync adjustments (color keys), and more... Awesome, do you have a listing of what those mappings are? Appreciate it! Nevermind: Just pulled the XML file and looked it up. Thanks! RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - Bram77 - 2013-02-14 This should give you an idea... Code: <keymap> RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - n1md4 - 2013-02-15 Hi. How can I boot this install to single user mode? I've tried moving init.d/xbmc elsewhere and setting grub default to 1, both still boot XBMC. I need a minimal shell to free up some space on / . RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - Bram77 - 2013-02-15 (2013-02-15, 15:03)n1md4 Wrote: Hi. How can I boot this install to single user mode? I've tried moving init.d/xbmc elsewhere and setting grub default to 1, both still boot XBMC. I need a minimal shell to free up some space on / . You'll lose quite some space when installing the requirements for a shell/window manager. You can do everything you need via ssh. You just need to know some basic commands. RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - n1md4 - 2013-02-15 (2013-02-15, 15:15)Bram77 Wrote:(2013-02-15, 15:03)n1md4 Wrote: Hi. How can I boot this install to single user mode? I've tried moving init.d/xbmc elsewhere and setting grub default to 1, both still boot XBMC. I need a minimal shell to free up some space on / . I appreciate that, and I'm not looking to install a GUI, I mean a booting to single user, init 1 .. It's .xbmc, it's grown to 5G. I've created an LV for it to live in, and have created the appropriate mounts in /etc/fstab , and on boot it mounts as expected. But, until I can umount .xbmc and remove the portion of that directory from / it's still taking space, and can't be unmounted when XBMC is running, hence single user mode. RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - un1versal - 2013-02-15 When I install minimal, I create a different /home partition so that way / is only for system files and /home is for everything else including all userdata stuff related to xbmc. uNi RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - Grumpa - 2013-02-15 A huge thank you to Bram77 for this script and uNiversal for his supporting role. Once I checked the log and noticed that a 4GB USB stick wasn't big enough the install took very little time to complete on an 8GB stick. Hopefully I'll be able to find the reputation +/- button on my wife's XP box because I don't see it on my PlayBook and my laptop is dead until I get a new charger RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - un1versal - 2013-02-15 @Grumpa np, ![]() uNi RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - Grumpa - 2013-02-15 (2013-02-15, 17:07)uNiversal Wrote: When I install minimal, I create a different /home partition so that way / is only for system files and /home is for everything else including all userdata stuff related to xbmc. During the install I chose "guided entire disk" hoping to see somewhere the option to move /home. If it's there I missed it. Can it be done during partitioning? I'd like to put /home on a small 250GB hdd and off the USB stick. (2013-02-15, 18:33)uNiversal Wrote: @Grumpa Thanks (easy extra post ![]() RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - un1versal - 2013-02-15 see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=141369&pid=1250360#pid1250360 uNi RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - n1md4 - 2013-02-15 (2013-02-15, 17:07)uNiversal Wrote: When I install minimal, I create a different /home partition so that way / is only for system files and /home is for everything else including all userdata stuff related to xbmc. I have LVs for some /home/xbmc/ directories, but didn't know how large userdata would grow. If you hadn't have done that, how would you boot to a Bash shell, without XBMC launching. RE: HOW-TO: Automated efficient (dedicated) XBMC installation on Ubuntu minimal 12.10 - Bram77 - 2013-02-15 I'm guessing the steps to move your home directory to another partition would be: - Create new partion (ext3 or ext4) on your target drive - Run "sudo blkid" to figure out the UUID of the new partion - Mount the new partition to a temporary folder - Copy all the contents from your current /home directory to the new partition - Modify /etc/fstab to mount the /home directory to new partition (using the UUID) - Delete all the contents of the directory - "mount -a" to remount the home partition or reboot the machine Something like that. But I personally would just copy the /home/xbmc/.xbmc directory via SFTP to my computer, reinstall everthing (all on the 250GB drive since it's quite a lot faster). After having reinstalled everything again just copy back the /home/xbmc/.xbmc directory and you're all set. |