[rubpa]

Hello!

I installed XBMC on my 4 yr. old Dell desktop following the instructions from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMCbuntu. I wanted a fast booting media OS and this one now boots within 30s.

However, even after editing fstab to mount another partition which contains my media files, I was not able to view this in the "Add Media" section of XBMC. After some searching and comparing with another ubuntu desktop installation, it appeared that XBMC uses fuse and the XBMCbuntu page does not mention about installing gvfs-fuse package. After installing this, I could see mounted partitions in XBMC.

Posting here for everybody's benefit.

rubpa

[MacUsers]

Or you can just create a symbolic link, like this:

Code:

xbmc@htpc:~$ mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
.........
.........
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw)
//DataBank/DataCenter/nMedia on /media/nMedia type cifs (ro,mand)

xbmc@htpc:~$ ls -l `echo $HOME`
total 109120
drwxr-xr-x 3 xbmc xbmc      4096 2010-06-21 19:21 automate
-rw------- 1 xbmc xbmc 236535808 2010-06-19 13:24 core
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xbmc xbmc        13 2010-06-01 13:05 nMedia -> /media/nMedia
.........
.........

And then it's accessible in the "Add Media" section of XBMC under the "Home Directory". Cheers!!