vagskal;691847 Wrote: > Thanks for posting this. > What is this and how can I get it to try out LMS under Linux on my PC > running LMS without destroying the current Win 7 installation? I have > heard that Ubuntu can be run from a CD/DVD on a Win PC, but can LMS > somehow be installed under Linux then? Get hold of wubi.exe from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer . This creates a second boot partition for ubuntu. You need to give it 17GB or so to play with on a disc on your system. When it completes it may show a 'permissions' error, but it seems all is well. When I shut down after the wubi installation I also got a BSOD (quite rare these days), but again all is well.
In my setup, all my music files are on a separate drive, and I hold all my Custom Scan and Custom Browse menus there as well, rather than in the LMS directories. The idea was that both my Windows LMS and the Ubuntu LMS would share the same menus and music files. If you are a linux person, setting up ubuntu, installing LMS and getting it to share music and menu files is probably simple. If you are not (like me) then it's harder. This is not really the place for linux installation details, so a brief summary of what I did will have to suffice: 1) Get the dual boot system up and running - that worked well. 2) Try to find your way round the latest ubuntu desktop design - words fail me 3) Download LMS for debian/ubuntu and install it - that worked well - it starts at boot time and runs as a service all the time - use 'localhost:9000' from your browser to talk to it 4) Get ubuntu to see your music (etc) directory - in my case I did this by: a) Find the UUID (xxxxxxxxxx below) of the disc by using "sudo blkid" b) Mount the disc with my music and menu files by adding the following to /etc/fstab: UUID="xxxxxxxxxxx" /media ntfs defaults,noexec 0 0 where /media is the directory I will expect to see all my music and menu directories 5) Reboot 6) Check to see if your music & other files are now visible under /media - if they are then all is well. If not, tear hair out and try again several ways until you get something to work. 7) Go into LMS, install plugins and set up the directories for custom browse and custom scan to point to the shared directories, set up the music library directory on the first set-up screen, and then rescan 8) be astonished at how much quicker it all is 9) Spend ages trying to get other useful stuff to work under ubuntu, such as Squeezeplay, and pretty much give up on it, deciding a dedicated LMS server is what I need, that does nothing at all except store and play my music. Good luck! -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93699 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
