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Installation issues / Playing with MD

« on: January 30, 2011, 08:04:10 am »

I have multiple MDs PXE booting out of LMCE 810 server. I would like to install a hard drive in one of them and load xbmc live so that I can explore that too.
I have my media in server(LMCE 810) volumes and I would like to keep it that way but I'd like to access them through XBMC as well. Can this be done?
Thanks

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Users / Re: PXE boot MD not working

« on: November 27, 2010, 03:31:55 pm »

Hi Chris90,
How long did you wait?
My initial setup took long time too. I learned to be patient with LMCE since then. Just let it be for a while, walk away for few hours (i did it overnight but I am sure its much shorter than that).
Also remember, system boots to VGA. If your set up different than VGA, follow wiki for holding down a key which I forget now. If you get a kernal panic at the end then, it's a different matter. This is just my $0.02
PaulH

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Users / Satellite tuning in NA

« on: November 27, 2010, 04:11:42 am »

Hi all,
Does anybody have experience in intergrating a Sat tuning card in the server?
I am kind of partial to Skywalker-2 card from Genpix. Is this a good choice or what other cards available for HD tuning?
It has to work in CS environment also.
Thanks in advance.

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Installation issues / Re: No AVWizard

« on: May 17, 2010, 08:54:52 pm »

I have a similar problem as Bert. I went through AVWizard OK and loads modules and end up with pointing arrow in a black screen.
Wonder what happened to Launch Manager kicking in. I am configuring my server to act as Core only. My media director (netbooting with the Core) is ending up with a Blank screen too.- may be unrealted to the problem I have with the Core.
My install is also from 5/3/10 snapshot. I just downloaded 5/11/10 snapshot (3.7Gb) and planning to give a try tonight. Perhaps I am going the wrong way about this? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Paul

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Installation issues / Re: Shuttle X50 V2 Kernel Panic

« on: April 28, 2010, 12:18:10 pm »

I had a similar problem few weeks ago on another shuttle (SN78SH). Turned out to be bad memory. May not be a bad idea to run memory test.
Thanks

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Help Wanted / Patriot BoxOffice as MD?

« on: February 25, 2010, 06:33:22 pm »

Has anybody used Patriot Box Office as a Media director in LMCE?
Many Thanks

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Installation issues / Re: MCE 0710 won't install

« on: November 15, 2009, 01:45:16 pm »

Firstly, if you use LinuxMCE 0810 beta instead of 0710 you probably won't have an issue.
I was contemplating to use 810 but the beta word held me back since I didn't want to complicate my matters even further. I will try it.

Your problem likely is that the 0710 kernel doesn't have a driver for that RAID chipset. You could disable the RAID hardware completely and allow the motherboard to see the SATA drives directly. Or you could try the CD install method to install Kubuntu 0710 first by manually adding drivers for that kernel (if they exist). But you are better off just using 0810 instead.

BTW, partitions and filesystems are irrelevant with the DVD install, it just blows away the partitions and creates its own.
Thanks. I should have realized it!

I don't understand what you mean by the first disk in the RAID is one partition and the others are other partitions. You don't get to choose that with RAID, that's the point. The RAID controller aggregates the disks into 1 "virtual" disk, which you can then partition how you like, but you don't see the individual disks so you can't assign a particular one to be something specific. You can configure the RAID system to have several RAID containers across different disks, so that you can choose to place a partition on a particular set of disks, but if you did that for a single (first) disk, then it wouldn't be a RAID array at all, thus pointless.
I am new to RAIDs. I bought this specifically for MCE in E-bay for $82. Array Controller Utility gave me the option to turn off 3 disks and just partition 1 disk (primary-RAID 0) and I went back in and added other 3 as a logical volume as RAID5. I have to learn a lot but I will do it.

A RAID 0 or 1 requires at least 2 disks (and RAID 1 requires an even number of disks), RAID 5 requires at least 3 disks. Personally, I would recommend you keep your media on a separate device like a NAS, in which case the need for RAID at all on your core is fairly low..;.
Using a NAS was/is a consideration. Now I am going for it once I get CORE running. Thank you very much for your input. I learned today.

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Installation issues / MCE 0710 won't install

« on: November 15, 2009, 04:09:42 am »

I am new to lot of things with Linux although I read alot in this forum. Having seen the video I am determined to get this machine  running. My problem is that I am trying to install MCE 0710 (DVD) on a HP Proliant DL580 server that has a raid controller. MCE goes thru upto installing on to the disk and says cannot install yet it sees my primary and logical disk. On this same machine, I have no problem installing Kubuntu 9.04. Same MCE disk I used on another computer and it works like a charm. I intend to dedicate this server purely for MCE. Question is why wouldn't MCE install on this? Out of 4 disks that I have in this raid, the first disk was partitioned as primary with 8Gb for boot, 3 Gb for Linux Swap and 25Gb as logical. Boot and Logical formatted to Ext3. The other 3 disks partitioned as extended logical. Can Linux gurus here show me the path please?
Thanks

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Feature requests & roadmap / Raspody N35 as a Media Director

« on: November 02, 2009, 06:59:42 pm »

Has any of the members ported Raspody N35 (from divxtech) as a media director?
Specs seem good. Not counting on original s/w but I think I could use audio/video/network part of it.
What do you guys think?
Thanks