Thanks BuZz.
For the time being leaving base build alone.
I was playing with Wine on the other three Jogglers and had not been paying attention to the graphical interface as much. Concurrently was turning them into little 2-way video telephones.
24th November, 2014
Started from scratch again. I would like to keep it to mostly BuZz's stock base build if possible.
1 - writing BuZz's base 14.04 build to an 8 Gb stick
2 - expanding build to 8 Gb initially (will shrink it for downloading afterwards)
3 - Expanded EFI boot partition some 50Mb. I get an error but it works still. Need to revisit this though.
Expanded it to a bit over 100Mb. Errors though. Went to disk manager and redefined it as an EFI boot partition; still getting errors though but boots.
4 - Installation of Webmin - just an alternative to using SSH and GUI.
5 - updating - 79 updates
6 - installation of a lite GUI (there are a few to choose from) - optional? suggestions?
Here looking at the LXDE (which is sort of what XBMC-Buntu uses), XFCE4 which is what Xubuntu uses. Open here for suggestions.
Decided to try a no GUI version first just booting into XBMC for a smaller build.
Adds list:
- Webmin
- XBMC - will leave it as is unless somebody suggests some tweaks to it.
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25th November 2014
OK got it installed with no GUI. Boots fine right into XBMC. Got the little XBMC logo showing when booting.
I still see a bit of text when first booting, goes to the XBMC logo for a bit, blanks for a few seconds then to XBMC.
Ideally making all of the text see for a bit black might make it look a bit cleaner when booting.
Lost the exit menu context other than Exit (which just reboots it).
I can remove Webmin to make it a bit smaller. Attached is a picture from Webmin. It is a bit larger than OP one. I was able to fit that one on the 2 Gb MMC of the Openpeak 7e. I installed the LIRC drivers / stuff and it works fine with the Microsoft Media remote control and IR sensor. Its fast and touch works fine. There was a Joggler based Metro looking theme but it was for the previous version of XBMC. Updating to current stuff is easy using Webmin. Today will test out the Joggler Wireless USB stick functionality.
26th November 2014
Today will shrink it down to 4Gb and upload it somewhere for testing. Let me know if how this is working for folks.
Help...stuck here trying something.
I am trying to format a fat16 small 100mb partition in a manual effort here using GParted (making it bootable with LBA/Boot stuff). I keep locking up Gparted. I am OK with making it big then shrinking it. Any suggestions?
Answering my own question here just created a bootable EFI fat16 100Mb partition and manually copied the files. I now have a little bit less than 4Gb XBMC boot stick and will post that image for testing and suggestions.
Runs a bit slower on my 4Gb USB stick. Trying something new here. Download and play with it. Please comment on it such that I can tweak it some more. Sharing directories in MS and Google. See if this works.
http://1drv.ms/1vmrtwz
http://tinyurl.com/nzu37z3
28th November 2014
Not sure if anyone has tested the above build. Here playing a bit testing the wireless stick. Network-Manager GUI is present but with no options right now such that you have to do a manual thing with wireless. Wireless card is seen fine. The issue of not having a GUI present causes this issue I think? I did install network manager v.9 on the OS side even though there is no gui it installed fine. I still have the issue with the shutdown pieces although I did see them for a bit.
29th November 2014
Another build. This one using LXDE core (no frills). It is smaller than the last build at 2.1 Gb. Wireless is working via the Network-Manager GUI. That said the XBMC Network-Manager GUI is still not showing anything. That said it does work if you configure the network via the GUI Network-Manager.
29th November 2014
- created a second user called xbmc and made this user a sudoer. Note that xbmc password is xbmc and joggler pasword is joggler.
- made user xbmc autologin when rebooting
- made LXDE GUI autostart when booting box
note that LXDE is core with no options really except network-manager running.
- made xbmc autostart when starting LXDE
4th December 2014
- Curioius if anyone has tested the above links?
6th December 2014
- added Squeezeplayer to the base
- you can shift the autostart now from either XBMC or Squeezeplayer
- added a clock screen saver to base GUI