I am new with XBMC. However for the past few days I realize its a very descent product for home users.
I did build my 'diskless' installation first. Which was working pretty good.
Then I realize that keeping the configuration on flash memory is a pretty good approach. Also, since XBMCLive is a pretty big distro, it took a time to load it over the network. So, I did switch it to USB pen drive.
Here is my few notes about:
First, I'd recoomend to use tmpfs option in grub loader. Since it should create few filesystems in the RAM and avoid excessive writing activity to the flash.
Here is a fragment:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=bla-bla-bla ro quiet splash xbmc=autostart,tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0 union=aufs
I did 'hardcoded' few things to /etc/init/xbmc-live.conf then:
# Write fstab entries for ramdisks
if grep -q -i tempfs /tmp/xbmcliveParams ; then
if ! grep -q -i tmpfs /etc/fstab ; then
echo "tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
echo "tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
echo "tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
#x#
echo "tmpfs /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp tmpfs size=64M,mode=0777 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
fi
#x#
/bin/mount -a
/bin/tar xvf /home/xbmc/xbmc.temp.tar
[ ! -d /var/log/apt ] && mkdir -p /var/log/apt
fi
It did the trick. now, only configuration files changes.
Also, I linked .xsession-errors to NULL, since its growing pretty fast and agaian, its a lot of writing to the flash (which is not good at all). Someone who needs that log, could link it to /var/log TMPFS or something in RAM
And the past - the Atheros Wireless card in my ION MB has a famous issue to dropping connection if its loaded. Its happened with kernel 2.6.31
I did update the kernel to 2.6.31-17 - it didn't help ether.
However, I found the solution. As you'll do the kernel upgrade, do not forget to update wireless modules. It did the trick. After this my small HTP working perfectly fine.
Here is one of the 'magic' commands to run:
apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic
Just my 2c.
WBW,
Vlad
[Russian team]
I did build my 'diskless' installation first. Which was working pretty good.
Then I realize that keeping the configuration on flash memory is a pretty good approach. Also, since XBMCLive is a pretty big distro, it took a time to load it over the network. So, I did switch it to USB pen drive.
Here is my few notes about:
First, I'd recoomend to use tmpfs option in grub loader. Since it should create few filesystems in the RAM and avoid excessive writing activity to the flash.
Here is a fragment:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=bla-bla-bla ro quiet splash xbmc=autostart,tempfs,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0 union=aufs
I did 'hardcoded' few things to /etc/init/xbmc-live.conf then:
# Write fstab entries for ramdisks
if grep -q -i tempfs /tmp/xbmcliveParams ; then
if ! grep -q -i tmpfs /etc/fstab ; then
echo "tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
echo "tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
echo "tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
#x#
echo "tmpfs /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp tmpfs size=64M,mode=0777 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
fi
#x#
/bin/mount -a
/bin/tar xvf /home/xbmc/xbmc.temp.tar
[ ! -d /var/log/apt ] && mkdir -p /var/log/apt
fi
It did the trick. now, only configuration files changes.
Also, I linked .xsession-errors to NULL, since its growing pretty fast and agaian, its a lot of writing to the flash (which is not good at all). Someone who needs that log, could link it to /var/log TMPFS or something in RAM
And the past - the Atheros Wireless card in my ION MB has a famous issue to dropping connection if its loaded. Its happened with kernel 2.6.31
I did update the kernel to 2.6.31-17 - it didn't help ether.
However, I found the solution. As you'll do the kernel upgrade, do not forget to update wireless modules. It did the trick. After this my small HTP working perfectly fine.
Here is one of the 'magic' commands to run:
apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic
Just my 2c.
WBW,
Vlad
[Russian team]
