Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Brown
>I tried the same thing with a USB thumbdrive, but my Epia board supported only USB 1.1, which is painfully slow to boot up. I assume that hi-speed USB 2.0 is tolerable? I've got an under-performing Kingston 4G that boots in about 70 seconds. I'm working on a new Debian Lenny build in a VM t

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-28 Thread Roy Wood
> I looked at it last night, and it looks great.  Since you're doing this, may > I suggest you add a note to indicate you can do the same thing using a USB > flash drive?  I've been doing this for a while for a bedroom Freevo box, and > it works well. > Will do! I tried the same thing with a U

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Brown
al Message- From: Roy Wood Sent: February 27, 2009 19:58 To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net; sty...@iinet.net.au Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo) > I would love to see a howto in the wiki on setting up a CF

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-27 Thread Roy Wood
> I would love to see a howto in the wiki on setting up a CF based system. > Started it here: http://doc.freevo.org/Hardware/CompactFlash -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -O

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-24 Thread Roy Wood
Point noted, so as time permits, I'll write up what I've done. It will actually be useful for me, too, since I'd like to document my work so that I can reproduce it when I need to. I've taken a couple of runs at this over the past year before losing interest each time, and it's annoying to restar

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-24 Thread Stygen
I would love to see a howto in the wiki on setting up a CF based system. -J On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:24:50 +0900, Adam Charrett wrote: > On Mon, February 23, 2009 7:18 pm, Roy Wood wrote: >> The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a >> compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) wi

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-24 Thread Adam Charrett
On Mon, February 23, 2009 7:18 pm, Roy Wood wrote: > The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a > compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) will be installed to the > CF/IDE drive, and all the movie, TV, music files will be on external > drives. > > Given that the CF/IDE drive is limi

Re: [Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-23 Thread Duncan Webb
Roy Wood wrote: > The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a > compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) will be installed to the > CF/IDE drive, and all the movie, TV, music files will be on external > drives. > > Given that the CF/IDE drive is limited in its available storage, I'd

[Freevo-users] Controlling where Freevo writes data? (minimize writing to /home/freevo)

2009-02-23 Thread Roy Wood
The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) will be installed to the CF/IDE drive, and all the movie, TV, music files will be on external drives. Given that the CF/IDE drive is limited in its available storage, I'd like to make sure Freevo wri