Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.5 AND 1.6 ?

2006-11-16 Thread Ignacio -
lol. In my gentoo box I had to reconfigure local_conf.py, and then everthing works well like before. On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, do you think I run in trouble when I install Freevo 1.6 on a machine where already Freevo 1.5.4 is installed ? All my music is

[Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread Ignacio -
Hi to everybody! Im trying to get an IDE Compact Flash Adapter, and put my hard disk as slave to record only, and put the whole system on the CF. Does anybody knows how will it work? In my opinion, it would work fine because it justs read from HDD on the boot up, and movies and music.., are a nfs

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo 1.5 AND 1.6 ?

2006-11-16 Thread John Molohan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi. do you think I run in trouble when I install Freevo 1.6 on a machine where already Freevo 1.5.4 is installed ? You shouldn't. All my music is on this machine, so it is essential that Freevo 1.5.4 is still working (at least as a fallback) after 1.6

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Thomas
I'm running Freevo off of a CF card and so far I like it. I don't have a tuner, so I just use it for video playback and photos. Having it be completely slient is great. I'm mounting both the data and parts of the system via NFS. A better approach is to use a ram disk. You want to minimize writes

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread Karl Lattimer
One tip, to reduce the long boot time when booting from a CF card, boot with the kernel option ide=nodma. You should maybe put that little tip bit in the wiki K, - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread Cornelius Koelbel
Hi, thats great. I also removed the HD from my freevo box. I run the box completely with pxe-boot from a root-nfs. Unfortunately there is still this anoying fan in the power supply. :( Kind regards Cornelius Chris Thomas schrieb: I'm running Freevo off of a CF card and so far I like it. I

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread alhaz
Quoting Cornelius Koelbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, thats great. I also removed the HD from my freevo box. I run the box completely with pxe-boot from a root-nfs. Unfortunately there is still this anoying fan in the power supply. :( With care, you can usually replace the fan in the power

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Thomas
Rid you Freevo of all noise: 1. Buy a fanless epia 2. Buy a fanless psu, http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.222/.f?category=13 3. Net boot or boot off of a cf card or usb drive -Chris On 11/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Cornelius Koelbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,

Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo box over Compact Flash.

2006-11-16 Thread alhaz
Quoting Chris Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rid you Freevo of all noise: 1. Buy a fanless epia 2. Buy a fanless psu, http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.222/.f?category=13 3. Net boot or boot off of a cf card or usb drive I'll pass on the EPIA. the fanless boards are unbelievably slow, and i