[Hapseleg]

Hi there xbmc forum
So i have been lurking around on this site for quite some time now and im quite loving xbmc, currently i am running xbmc live installed on a 2,5" hdd that runs on a zotac ion-a (atom 330) with 4 gb ram so its playing pretty smooth!

But i ran into some questions, i tried searching for some of them and cant find the exact answer im looking for:

1. Linux vs Live:
I am currently running on a live version because i guess its easier to install :3 but what are the main advantage getting a Linux install instead of a live install? Also, cant i install [Linux] stuff on my live version? they are after all both running on a Linux kernel.

2. Amitech Mini keyboard
Can i turn on my computer using my Amitech Mini keyboard? it runs over IR trough usb.

3. Trouble with Library
I've tried quite a lot and i cant get the automatic search to add my movies to the library automatically :/ The only way i can add the movies is by adding the one by one and i think i got a movie collection with 100+ movies so it will take quite some time the movies are on my windows server 2008 and i can easily watch by going into their folder and click the mkv file. Could the problem be that they are in folders?

I think thats my problems for now Thank you for making this wonderful program XBMC team and thank you all for answering questions in this forum, and sorry for not putting , and . (grammar isnt my best ability )

-Hapseleg

[vikjon0]

1. Linux vs Live:
I am currently running on a live version because i guess its easier to install :3 but what are the main advantage getting a Linux install instead of a live install? Also, cant i install [Linux] stuff on my live version? they are after all both running on a Linux kernel.

Live is ubuntu 9.10. Start installing stuff!

[Hannes The Hun]

well, then let's see how long it takes him to srsly fuck up the live install nvidia graphics driver update and kernel updates should do the job quite soon...

[vikjon0]

Most likely, but I dont know that. There is plenty of IT professional that can deal with it but don't know linux. Such as myself.

I won't bet against you. This and 50% of all question in this forum can be answererd with "if you can't google it, you can't implement it"

I will add a disclaimer:
Since you have to ask, you will most likely break it if you try.

happy?

[Hannes The Hun]

more than that!

[Hapseleg]

Well im just following the guides if i have to install something i have already installed some stuff that said [live] so its no problem really, i guess the next thing will be frontend

[Hapseleg]

bump

[cowfodder]

I have all sorts of stuff installed over a live install, with the latest kernel and nvidia drivers, and other than fixing the init.d file for sabnzbd nothing has broken. No need to be such a downer. Take your time, read up on how certain processes work, and remember that if something goes wrong it's easy to reinstall live and start over.

[vikjon0]

What Hannes_the_hun mean is that as soon as you run an update&&upgrade on 9.11Live the live graphical drivers breaks. Sometimes there is five posts about that on the first page inthe forum.

[balthisar]

I have all sorts of stuff installed over a live install, with the latest kernel and nvidia drivers, and other than fixing the init.d file for sabnzbd nothing has broken.

I bet that your virtual tty's are broken with the latest nvida drivers. The price of me losing that bet is your telling us how you fixed them.

[BLKMGK]

I've found that before making all sorts of major changes that backing my system up is a good idea. Then if I totally hose it I can recover and be fine. It's not that hard...