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Developers / Re: Findings while working on alternative install DVD...

« on: March 06, 2011, 02:17:59 am »

unless your code is doing something clever that i dont see, i believe that /root/new-installer should be /home/$sad/new-installer

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Users / Re: Virtual machines and ram

« on: February 09, 2011, 03:31:04 pm »

Locutus, could you make your kubuntu 1004 install a new page and link to that from the main virtualbox page?
Use the stub links at the bottom of the page.

done, just tell me if i did it wrong though.

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Users / Re: Virtual machines and ram

« on: February 09, 2011, 03:32:48 am »

I have to say so far im impressed with Virtual Box, for testing its pretty nifty.
It held up having 810 and 1004 being installed at he same time on different machines.

But, I have a question development related, i dont have a fast internet connection, so installing 1004 takes a while and i can see myself doing this many times in the future so i was wondering if i there is a way i can hold a copy of the svn locally and download the updates daily so that im not downloading as much and the installs go faster. From my understanding from reading the wiki i believe this is doable but i wanted to check with people who would know.

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Users / Re: Virtual machines and ram

« on: February 08, 2011, 09:20:03 pm »

so far the highest i have been able to pull from Virtual Box is about 1.5GB per machine that is running.

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Users / Re: Virtual machines and ram

« on: February 08, 2011, 08:52:21 pm »

i added my information to the wiki but im not good at formatting so if it looks bad i apologize, i also updated the instructions to reflect changes in the newest Virtual Box


@daballiemo: if my hardware supported VT i would have gone with KVM

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Users / Re: Virtual machines and ram

« on: February 08, 2011, 03:25:01 am »

i want to thank purps for the suggestion of running a PAE kernel as that is the solution that worked for me as i dont have 64 bit processors, so now the server detects all 12 gigs.

But, i have another question, my purpose for having this server is running virtual box as a development environment, and i have discovered that there are some extra steps to run kubuntu 10.04 in virtual box and i was wondering if you wanted me to documents my findings in the wiki, or not because 10.04 is just a thought right now.

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Users / Re: The Ultimate LinuxMCE Box

« on: February 05, 2011, 09:47:53 pm »

most people use nvidia for graphics because of the availability of drivers, as to Intel or AMD i dont know of any pros or cons for either.

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Users / Re: The Ultimate LinuxMCE Box

« on: February 05, 2011, 07:26:07 pm »

there is no one "best setup" but if you look at http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:User_Setups you can see what other people use and get a better idea of what will work for you.

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Installation issues / Re: upnp server: 500 Internal Server Error

« on: February 02, 2011, 07:43:30 pm »

How do you know the difference between a real "bug" and a user or system problem.  In otherwords, how do you know that is actualy error in a script somewhere and not a driver issue or an improper user setting.

Thanks,

<M>

Thats why others try to reproduce the error to track it down

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Users / Re: Virtual machines and ram

« on: January 31, 2011, 09:13:49 pm »

well now i just have to figure out if my server has 64 bit processors in it as it was manufactured around the time that 64 bit was hitting the market and its in pieces now so i cant boot it up.

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Users / Virtual machines and ram

« on: January 31, 2011, 01:15:04 am »

right now the server that i have has Kubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) and Virtual Box running on it and in Virtual Box i have my test core, i am upgrading the amount of ram but i have the question, does virtual box only use a part of the host OS's ram or can it use unused ram? I ask this because if i would put more than 4 gigs of ram in, than some of the ram would be unused by my host OS, which would mean if Virtual Box cant use it then i will have to install a 64 bit host OS.

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Users / Re: HDD Backup

« on: January 29, 2011, 04:10:32 am »

Hey M
Grab a copy of something like Acronis or Norton Ghost and make a bootable DVD then boot of it and plug in a USB stick or USB HDD and make a backup of the whole HDD this is assuming you have a seperate HDD's for LinuxMCE and your data and it will do all the partitions etc when you do the restore to your LinuxMCE HDD, I have a separate 80Gb HDD for the core and then my software RAID.

If I stuff my system I can go downstairs plug in the HDD and boot off the DVD (I use Acronis) am I am back up and running in 6 mins saves so much stuffing around, the advantage is when I finally get a working image then I will just make another backup image and name it accordingly.............no downloading just nice and easy, you would only need to do updates & upgrades.

The only one thing I am not sure of is if there would be an issue with dist-upgrades as I have not done one since my original image I made in Feb last year but it sure makes it easy to recover if you stuff things like I have on a few occasions trying to test new ideas........this way it keeps the wife & 3 yr old happy

Regards
Beeker

I personally use clonezilla for doing what you are.

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Installation issues / Re: 8.10 Installation - Never successful

« on: January 25, 2011, 05:58:00 am »

may i suggest re-downloading the snapshot also as i have gotten corrupt downloads before

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Installation issues / Re: 8.10 Installation - Never successful

« on: January 23, 2011, 09:08:41 pm »

may i suggest re-downloading the snapshot also as i have gotten corrupt downloads before

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Users / Re: Question about install scripts and snapshots...

« on: January 19, 2011, 04:12:32 pm »

the 0810 install directions point you to the newest install script. I believe the svn is used for installing on 1004.