[agentwind]

i have a pc (currently with windows 7)

-it is used as a media center which is connected to a tv via HDMI
-it has a hard drive with 2 partitions
-one for the OS
-the other for file storage
-the pc also acts as a file server via wireless internet

i would like to remove windows 7 and replace it with XBMC live
but i need to be able to access the files on the second partition(NTFS)
and the second partition also needs to be accessible over the network

can anyone give me a list of setup instructions

[vikjon0]

You can probably figure that out with google pretty quick.
You would want to mount the ntfs partition and then share it with samba.
If you install a full ubuntu sharing is included. (right click as in win)

[agentwind]

i was hoping it was possible to do this with the live install not a full linux install

since im not that familiar with linux

[vikjon0]

You can do everything in Live as well. Difference is that you have no GUI. Which is not a problem but I fail to see how it will be easier if you do not know linux.

[agentwind]

i want step by step commands to type in

is there even a way to get to the command line in live?

[topfs2]

When you boot XBMC Live you get the ability to choose which gfx driver you have. If you press 'e' on the one you have you can remove the no-disk-mount or something line to the boot. I'm not dead sure on what the command is but it's rather easy to spot as it's something with no-disk and such.

When you have removed that you press 'b' and it will boot XBMC Live and mount internal HDDs which XBMC will happily pick up and use, (when you do add source you will have the HDDs among the list in the browse option).

You can make this default by editing the menu.lst on the hdd you have installed XBMC Live to.

We don't have this on by default because someone reported it destroying a raid setup, however unlikely it is to happen again it's better to be safe than sorry

Cheers,
Tobias.

[althekiller]

i was hoping it was possible to do this with the live install not a full linux install

since im not that familiar with linux

That's a backwards thought. XBMCLive is for trying out and using XBMC as a dedicated, XBMC only HTPC. If you want to do anything else, it will be MORE difficult with Live than a full Linux distribution. This applies 100 fold for some one who's "not that familiar with linux." You'll likely have a much better experience starting with a FULL linux install, especially coming from windows. Once you get the hang of things you can start removing stuff you don't need or hacking on the Live ISO.

[Selti]

Sorry, but I must support the thread owner. Just adding Samba to an already perfectly running XBMC Live is much more appealing to Linux noobs like us than spending hours to become an Ubuntu semi-expert.

I've tried a full Ubuntu install on my IONITX-A before and almost NOTHING really worked fine. No digital sound, no correct VDPAU aware driver and several more weaknesses like strange behaviour of Firefox etc. Playing even low res SD movies looked like a slide show

Definitely not stable enough for HTPC usage with WAF.

Then I've tried XBMC Live with the instructions in this thread: http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53888

The result afte 20 Minutes: Digital HDMI Sound, VDPAU, Flawless HD playback... perfect.

The only two things I want to do now to make this my new favorite HTPC system is permanently mounting the hard disks and adding the Samba server.

First the disks:
I found the menu.lst only on \media\sda1\boot\grub. After I removed 'nodiskmount' there with sudo nano, the system still boots with no disks mounted. If I try the temporary change at boot time in the interactive GRUB boot menu, all disks are properly mounted.

Ok, lets imagine that little HD problem is fixed. Then the next step is an easy line mode Samba Server installation and some configuration, even if that is in line mode config files. I'm going to do the config only once for each of the two data disks that are connected to the ION. Can anybody give instructions to do the install and the config from the XBMC command line?

Kind regards
Selti

[vikjon0]

http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=inst...=&aq=f&oq=

Edit

Just adding Samba to an already perfectly running XBMC Live is much more appealing to Linux noob

It may seem more appealing, but the fact that you don't know how to google the solution indicates that the less appealing avenue may be better for you.

[Dougie085]

XBMClive requires you to do everything via the command line where as normal ubuntu offers a full GUI just like windows. So it's quite a bit easier for the linux noob and certainly does not take hours to figure out how to get around. There is a learning curve for linux it's better to learn it then to look for short cuts.

[Selti]

http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=inst...=&aq=f&oq=

Edit

It may seem more appealing, but the fact that you don't know how to google the solution indicates that the less appealing avenue may be better for you.

May be, but only if the Ubuntu is running fine alreaday. As I posted already it is far away from doing so on my ION system. The XBMC live is already running perfectly.

But to show You how 'appealing' Ubuntu is for a noob: I wanted to add a new hardddisk to my XBMC PC. So I booted Ubuntu from HD, started Gparted, created a partition, formatted it with ext3... everything fine until then. Then I wanted to use that disk with XBMC live, but I could not write to it. So rebooted with Ubuntu and trying to write on in from the Ubuntu GUI. Did not work either. It took me about 1 hour to find out that the owner of that disk was root and my user of course was not. So how can a system create objects that the creator can not use in the same session? Maybe there is a good (security) reason to do that. But as long as things like that happen no noob will use any Linux, W* and MaxOS will be peferred instead. Sometimes I think that's what the Linux freaks really want to achieve: To have an operating system only for specialists.:confused2:

And here in this forum the only answer I get is 'Install Ubuntu' instead of helping me to achieve two little tasks with XBMC Live (permanent disk mount and Samba Server).

BTW, of course I know how to google the Samba Server install description for Ubuntu, but first I need to know if this also works on XBMC Live and thats why I ask that question here. I thought that was the XBMC live forum, no?

Why is everybody here in the XBMC Live forum giving me advice to move to full Ubuntu instead of respecting my simple wish to keep my XBMC Live system as small and simple as possible?

Kind Regards
Selti

[vikjon0]

I need to know if this also works on XBMC Live

No problem. My understanding is that if the "Live" is installed on the HD everything will work as in a normal ubuntu installation. (or rather it IS a normal u installation)

BTW, this is the Linux AND Live forum, which maybe explain some of the mixed message you are getting.

I agree that it is strange that gparted does not mount the disks in a "normal" (winxp) way. Maybe it is possible but I ended up doing in the terminal and when there was a permission problem I solved that in the GUI by right clicking. As you see I get by with mix of learning linux command and trial and error in the GUI.

[vikjon0]

In case you want to install with the LiveCD AND have a GUI for some configuration/running bittorrent in the background etc.

Boot to safe mode/ or drop to command line and kill the xbmc session

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
- you should see one line starting with #
-remove the # to enable the source
-CTRL o to write the file to disk
-CTRL x to exit nano

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-core nautilus-share

startx
- will start a gnome session
- You can now create a share accessable from windows by righ click on the folder.
- A simple way to get wifi is to add the network manager

Logout will drop you to commandline
sudo reboot will => reboot and start xbmc

It is a bit crude. I don't know how to exit xbmc live directly to command line or how to manually start xbmc after logout from gnome.

An alternative to starting gnome in the console is to run a remote session in the background.

To do this you need e.g. NX server:

Code:

wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.3.0/Linux/nxclient_3.3.0-6_i386.deb
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.3.0/Linux/nxnode_3.3.0-17_i386.deb
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.3.0/Linux/FE/nxserver_3.3.0-22_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i nxclient_3.3.0-6_i386.deb nxnode_3.3.0-17_i386.deb  nxserver_3.3.0-22_i386.deb

sudo reboot

install the nx client on your other computer and connect while xbmc is running on your TV screen!