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Indeed I have a box with a lot of media on it, but that's an other one.
This one is an old test PC without DVD reader, that why I did it from the CD.
I will install a DVD reader and make a new install from the DVD.
Thanks a lot for your assistance,

sp

I did install a new kubuntu 7.10 + upgrade.
Afterwards I did a linuxmce 7.10 install from the 2 CD's

thanks

sp

1. Have you got the core setup with 2 NICs, one connected to your external network and broadband router and the other connected to your internal network and the MD?
2. Is the internal network 192.168.80.0, and the internal interface has an IP address of 192.168.80.1?
3. The internal and external networks are not bridged in any way?
4. There is no DHCP server on the internal network except the core - this is the most important bit! (including no Windows PCs using Internet Connection Sharing)
5. The core is connected to the MD either with a direct ethernet cable or through a switch/hub (not a router)

1 : yes, I have 2 Nics connected as stated
2 : yes, and I have several other PC's who's all receives their IP from the core (dhcp server) by ex 192.168.80.253 (252, ..) I also have 2 PC's with fix IP 192.168.80.200 and 201
3 : I don't think so, it is a standard CD setup. How can I check that ?
4 : I have one windows PC in the network, but I don't use internet connection sharing, but may be there is a service running for that ? Do you know what I have to check to be sure that it is not running ?
5 : yes, in fact there are 2 switches

many thanks for your help

sp

Hello,
I made a CD installation on a core.
When I try to netboot a MD, it process for a while (setup script), then I can shortly see something about DHCP, then something about stopping the MD and the MD reboots.
When is starts again, it waits for an IP from the core but does'nt receive it and the startup fails.
After waiting a few moments, the dhcp works again, but the MD won't boot because of an "Could find kernel image : 58/vmlinuz"
Via the web interface I tried to rebuild the MD and reload the router.
The vmlinuz and initmdr are present in the boot directory of the /usr/pluto/diskless/58

any idea ?

thanks,

sp

Thanks for your answer.
That means I should change my vdrbox machine to linuxmce.
That machine is also running other applications like amarok or backuppc, and I am a little bit scare of changing everything at once.
Do you know of it is possible to run linuxmce inside a virtual machine (virtualbox or vmware) ?
I presume it can, the only thing I am not sure is of the PCI devices (dvb card) can be accessed ?

thanks,

sp

Ok, will try to find some free space.
How many MB do I need at least ?

thanks,

sp

Hello,

I tried to install linux mce from the CD's but I have a problem with mysql.
First I had problems because of lack of room on my / partition.
At the end I created a ln -s for /tmp and /var/lib/mysql
I saw that the installer was claiming about a dependencies about mysql-server and mysql-server-5.0
I then tried with apt-get -f install
It says :
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 16 non mis à jour.
1 partiellement installés ou enlevés.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 0o dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 0o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Paramétrage de mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1ubuntu3) ...
* Stopping MySQL database server mysqld   [ok]


and it hangs there.
The only way to get out is ctrl-c
This is what I get after ctrl-c

dpkg : erreur de traitement de mysql-server-5.0 (--configure) :
sous-processus post-installation script tué par le signal (Interruption)
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
mysql-server-5.0
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

And I can't find more info in the apt log file

any idea ?

thanks,

sp

Hello,

I am completly new to Linux mce, and I have some questions about possibililties.

I have one vdrbox running with streamdev plugin enabled.
I have a second pc without dvb device, and that's receiving the streams from the vdrbox and show them on a lcd tv screen.

I would like to run linuxmce on that second machine.
I saw that linuxmce can now be used together with vdr. My question is, can it also be used on a machine without dvb device by receiving a stream ?

On that second machine, I am also running a mega slideshow (16000 pictures), so my tv screen is used as an electronic photo album in my livingroom.
Can linuxmce handle a big slideshow by scanning directories recursively ?
If not, I found a small application (feh) that does that very well. Can I start an external application from within linux mce ?

Thanks for your help, and congratulation fro the linuxmce that seems very nice.

sp