2009-12-06, 00:53
Let me start off by first saying this: Proceed with Caution. I am by no means a master of XBMC. I have about a week of experience. :p
In this guide I will show you how to create a partition on your Acer Revo 3610 and install XBMCLive 9.11 Beta1 while still keeping Windows 7.
Tools
Step 1: Format HDD
The first thing you are going to need to do is create a partition for XBMCLive to install to. For some reason, I was unsuccessful at using the auto partition in the xbmc setup, so I made my own. To do so:
Step 2: Setup your Thumbdrive
I used this tutorial to create my thumb drive (You dont have to burn a cd. I went the unetbootin route)
Step 3: Change Boot Settings
Next you are going to need to set your thumb drive to boot before your hdd. Restart your computer and enter your BIOS by hitting delete a bunch after you hear the beep from your restart.
Now you need to go to Advanced BIOS and change the usb key to be the first boot device. Save, Restart. Your thumb drive should now boot with a grey screen.
Step 4: Install XBMCLive
When you see the grey splash screen, you should be presented with a few options. If you wanted to test out XBMCLive first, you can select “XBMCLive - NVIDIA GPU.” Or if you wanted to install it to your partition, you need to highlight “Install XBMCLive to disk” and press tab. Then at the end of that line you will see “preseed.cfg --” change to “preseed.cfg cdrom-detect/try-usb=true --”
You will now run through a few screens like language support, keyboard, timezone..etc When you hit the Partition Disks screen, go to the bottom to “Manual”
Here you should see your partition that you made in Windows 7. Highlight it and hit enter (Make sure you have the right one, or you will delete Win7). Then you are going to want to delete the partition. From there it should take you back a screen and it should be labeled raw data. Then just select that and XBMCLive should install. It will ask you to setup a username and password. Make sure you remember it.
From now on when you restart your computer, you will have 4 options. The first is for XBMCLive, the 4th is for Win7 (will be labeled vista.. weird) The 3rd one is Acer Recovery Manager (Also labeled vista). You can change the list and name in your menu.lst file. Just look around on this forum. Just be careful.
Step 5: Configuring XBMCLive
Now that you have XBMCLive installed, go ahead and boot into it by selecting it from your bootscreen when you restart. Make sure you setup your video settings. You want to set your render settings to VDPAU to take advantage of the onboard graphics.
Step 6: Adding the Windows 7 Partition to XBMCLive (Optional)
If you have any files saved on your Windows 7 partition and would like to access them from XBMCLive, I used this tutorial. Just make sure you are adding your hdd to the fstab file that you change “ext2” to the format of your hdd. Mine was ntfs. Also where it says:
Its asking for your user and group. To find this out while at your command prompt type
Replace username with your username that you specified during setup.
In order to login to the shell, press Ctrl + Alt + F6 while in xbmc.
When editing files: Ctrl + o will save them.
To exit files: Ctrl + x
Cheers,
Anthony
In this guide I will show you how to create a partition on your Acer Revo 3610 and install XBMCLive 9.11 Beta1 while still keeping Windows 7.
Tools
- One Thumb-drive 1.5GB or larger
- XBMCLive 9.11 Beta1
Step 1: Format HDD
The first thing you are going to need to do is create a partition for XBMCLive to install to. For some reason, I was unsuccessful at using the auto partition in the xbmc setup, so I made my own. To do so:
- Boot Win7 and in the run box in the start menu type: “Disk Management.”
- Select the Acer HDD (Should be C) and right click > Shrink Volume
- It will see how much space you have, then ask you how much you would like to partition. It doesn't matter what file systems you put on it, because you are just going to delete the partition again once in XBMCLive. The whole point here is to set aside the space you want.
Step 2: Setup your Thumbdrive
I used this tutorial to create my thumb drive (You dont have to burn a cd. I went the unetbootin route)
Step 3: Change Boot Settings
Next you are going to need to set your thumb drive to boot before your hdd. Restart your computer and enter your BIOS by hitting delete a bunch after you hear the beep from your restart.
Now you need to go to Advanced BIOS and change the usb key to be the first boot device. Save, Restart. Your thumb drive should now boot with a grey screen.
Step 4: Install XBMCLive
When you see the grey splash screen, you should be presented with a few options. If you wanted to test out XBMCLive first, you can select “XBMCLive - NVIDIA GPU.” Or if you wanted to install it to your partition, you need to highlight “Install XBMCLive to disk” and press tab. Then at the end of that line you will see “preseed.cfg --” change to “preseed.cfg cdrom-detect/try-usb=true --”
Code:
cdrom-detect/try-usb=true
You will now run through a few screens like language support, keyboard, timezone..etc When you hit the Partition Disks screen, go to the bottom to “Manual”
Here you should see your partition that you made in Windows 7. Highlight it and hit enter (Make sure you have the right one, or you will delete Win7). Then you are going to want to delete the partition. From there it should take you back a screen and it should be labeled raw data. Then just select that and XBMCLive should install. It will ask you to setup a username and password. Make sure you remember it.
From now on when you restart your computer, you will have 4 options. The first is for XBMCLive, the 4th is for Win7 (will be labeled vista.. weird) The 3rd one is Acer Recovery Manager (Also labeled vista). You can change the list and name in your menu.lst file. Just look around on this forum. Just be careful.
Step 5: Configuring XBMCLive
Now that you have XBMCLive installed, go ahead and boot into it by selecting it from your bootscreen when you restart. Make sure you setup your video settings. You want to set your render settings to VDPAU to take advantage of the onboard graphics.
Step 6: Adding the Windows 7 Partition to XBMCLive (Optional)
If you have any files saved on your Windows 7 partition and would like to access them from XBMCLive, I used this tutorial. Just make sure you are adding your hdd to the fstab file that you change “ext2” to the format of your hdd. Mine was ntfs. Also where it says:
Code:
sudo chown -R xbmc:xbmc /storage
Code:
sudo id username
Replace username with your username that you specified during setup.
In order to login to the shell, press Ctrl + Alt + F6 while in xbmc.
When editing files: Ctrl + o will save them.
To exit files: Ctrl + x
Cheers,
Anthony