One thing I found with the rc1 was that the network settings were very important not to fiddle with prior to having access to the web admin which did appear to work in my case thanks bongowongo (@#$!#$% network manager).  Also to mention that do follow the 810 install guide still.  Asking people over IRC if one should apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade or just run the install resulted in 3 failed installs for myself.  Looking like this install is a winner though as the 2250s look like plug and play.  Wondering if analog firmware gets downloaded too as I see they get recognized better than 10.04 on bootup. 

What changed between 10.04 to the rc1 version in regards to networking?  With Lucid I was able to change my network settings immediately to reflect my network and with the rc1 I have to accept the fact of obtaining an external ip via DHCP from my ISP for eth0.  I'm running the installer right now with the default two card interfaces file.  After it gets installed and the media directors are connecting I will want to change eth0 to have a IP address of 192.168.0.21.  How might this best be accomplished?

Burned the ISO and now have Kubuntu on the machine and it is running 2.6.27-17-generic i686 unknown

There is a taskbar icon that notifies me there are updates.  When I click it it tells me that I'm upgrading to an unsupported distribution. 

Do I do a complete upgrade first or run the LinuxMCE full install shell from the desktop plasmoid?

Yeah I'm doing a burn of rc1 right now at x4.10 and enough of trying to do 10.04.  Pity it was quite robust but I couldn't ever make the MD's work.  The MD5 matched up with the download so a new DVD.iso will change things.

Turning on my MD yields unpacking linux-headers-2.6.32-33 which occurs after it tries to download nvidia-glx-260 and a few other packages.  I have even learned how to do this by logging root on the diskless MD and apt-get install nvidia-glx-260 as the proper driver is needed by this MD otherwise I never get to see the red head as it stalls with AVWizard failed to setup X.  I never get to hear any beeps and can't enter the AVWizard period.  Tried holding down shift key through entire process.

How long does it take to unpack those packages?  Specifically the linux-headers-2.6.32-33 package.  Does it normally take a long time to unpack?  Started the MD after issuing dpkg --configure -a still not much output from the shell after booting.

The /var/log/pluto/nvidia-install.log file info:

== Begin NVidia driver installation (Thu Aug 25 08:31:51 MDT 2011) ==
Card Detected: 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:10c3] (rev a2)
PCI_ID Detected: 10c3
Detected installed driver nvidia-glx-260
LMCE prefers driver nvidia-glx
installing NEW driver nvidia-glx!
== End NVidia driver installation (Thu Aug 25 08:31:53 MDT 2011) ==
== Begin NVidia driver installation (Thu Aug 25 08:38:19 MDT 2011) ==
Card Detected: 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:0392] (rev a1)
PCI_ID Detected: 0392
Detected installed driver nvidia-glx-260
LMCE prefers driver nvidia-glx-260
Preferred driver nvidia-glx-260 already installed.
== End NVidia driver installation (Thu Aug 25 08:38:20 MDT 2011) ==

Log into the /usr/pluto/diskless/45 and take chroot /usr/pluto/diskless/45 then issue dpkg --configure -a then apt-get install nvidia-glx.  To which I see the following output:
  
root@dcerouter:/usr/pluto/install# apt-get install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting nvidia-glx-260 instead of nvidia-glx
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-2.6.32-33 nvidia-260-kernel-source nvidia-glx-260 nvidia-settings python-xkit screen-resolution-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-260-kernel-source nvidia-glx-260 nvidia-settings python-xkit screen-resolution-extra
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-headers-2.6.32-33
1 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/37.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 157MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  linux-headers-2.6.32-33 nvidia-260-kernel-source nvidia-glx-260 python-xkit screen-resolution-extra nvidia-settings
Authentication warning overridden.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `linux-headers-2.6.32-33' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 57127 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-headers-2.6.32-33 2.6.32-33.72 (using .../linux-headers-2.6.32-33_2.6.32-33.72_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-headers-2.6.32-33 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-33_2.6.32-33.72_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to install new version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-33/arch/h8300/include/asm/page_offset.h': No such file or directory
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-260-kernel-source.
Unpacking nvidia-260-kernel-source (from .../nvidia-260-kernel-source_260.19.29-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-glx-260.
Unpacking nvidia-glx-260 (from .../nvidia-glx-260_260.19.29-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Selecting previously deselected package python-xkit.
Unpacking python-xkit (from .../python-xkit_0.4.2.2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package screen-resolution-extra.
Unpacking screen-resolution-extra (from .../screen-resolution-extra_0.13_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
Unpacking nvidia-settings (from .../nvidia-settings_195.36.08-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-33_2.6.32-33.72_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Diskless MD1
Asus p5q
Intel Celeron E3400 LGA775
Gigabyte 8400 GS using HDMI Out to Prive/Soyo 32"
2 GB DDR 800
Gig lan
Not working needs proper nvidia driver

Diskless MD2
Asus p5q
Intel Celeron E3400 LGA775 2 core
Gigabyte 8400 GS using HDMI Out to Samsung LN378530P7FXZC Version AA01
2 GB DDR 800
Gig lan
Not working needs proper nvidia driver


MD3
Toshiba Laptop
VGA at 1024x768
This media director is working fine

Core
GA-K8N-SLI
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 1 core

arden@dcerouter:/var/log$ lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
03:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7164 (rev 81)
04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7164 (rev 81)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1)

To do still get the 2250's working correctly.  Still need to download firmware but confident if I can only get the MD's working.  Going for a reboot...  Brb.  

Okay and how to rsync a mirror for others.  I have two downloads active on different computers.  One from the main site and one from fibres tele-magic.co.uk site but both are looking like they will be awhile.  Can this be built from the svn repositories as I mention in my above post or is that page set for obsoleteness or could it use an update?  In the mean time I'll crash out for a few hours and hope the downloads complete the 3.3GB task.  Was a late night.

I seem to be having a the time of my life trying to just get the release candidate downloaded.  I've opted to try and check out from the repository following wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Installing_1004 but alas that failed on the 16th video wizard download for some reason.  Are there any other download links where the release candidate can be downloaded from?