Davide Lucchesi <davide <at> lucchesi.eu.org> writes: > piren-remaster should be already installed within the live distribution: > this means that you can install it directly from the live environment. > However, the installation procedure will not produce a running system > like the one you can obtain with a regular Debian (or Ubuntu) > installation, but the live image will be copied to specified HDD (or > USB) partition.
Davide, If I might suggest, an "install to HD as Debian" script with a matching command.fxd file & Freevo menu option might be in order as a way for people to quickly build up a new Freevo box using the Piren distribution. I've been using Debian systems for about 6 years now, and I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the whole piren-remaster thing. I have two Ubuntu-based HTPC's that I want to switch to Debian, and I would like to use Piren to do it, since you've done such a nice job of creating an HTPC appliance live-CD (as opposed to my kludgy, stripped-down-desktop-OS HTPCs). My SOHO server/Freevo recordserver is already running a mixed Debian stable/unstable distro, and it's generally bullet-proof. In my household, Freevo is rapidly becoming a "critical system", so I've been trying to move towards having an "experimental" Freevo running in VMware, where I can snapshot, test and re-package .debs as needed to deploy to the "production" boxes. My wife and kids get annoyed with me when an "upgrade" to add new features breaks my kludgy Ubuntu boxes ;-) My stumbling block has been trying to install to Hard Disk using Piren, and I've been considering just using Debian netboot and build it up from there. I think the whole Piren concept is a good one, where you can create and repackage for live CD/USB stick usage, but I think there's a whole other market that wants an installer for a working system that's upgradeable via the standard Debian repositories. Something along the lines of Mythbuntu (http://www.mythbuntu.org/), but for Freevo. I hope you consider adding an install to HD as Debian option to the next version of Piren, or at least put up a How-to for it on the piren.org website. Thanks for your work on Piren; as I said earlier, you've done a great job of creating an HTPC appliance distro, and it's something I'd really like to be able to use. Cheers! /Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
