Sorry to hear that :-/ rpm is a kind of zipped installer archive I think it's temporarily stored somewhere if you are using wget first you can probably find it somewhere.
I just "rpm Uvh http:/ww....." directly from the slim website. rpm is redhat packet manager i think ? Apparently ripserver had done something with SC to integrate the other functions Another idea would be to install another Linux distro on the machine. vortexbox is a similar solution to the ripserver http://vortexbox.org with built in cd ripper, he is selling pre built machines but the iso installer is free, so he is interested i creating a user base this way. And he has a user forum. Another redhat based distro if you are comfortable with rpm ? I'm running ClarckConnect 4.2 on my machine, I built my box with help of Mike Ulverstons excellent dyi site http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/index.htm This machine does not auto rip CD's out of the box, and I don't have the skills to set it up for that, but it can have samba and ftp shares and has a nice web-gui for admin. Then of course fedora and redhat Most if not all Linux distros can be "remote" controlled anyway so you can build a headless server with any of them. Most are aviable in a server version without GUI. Debian Ubuntu or Kubuntu Xubuntu ? or Ubuntu server this Debian based linux uses synaptic instead of rpm (another good installation manager or what to call it). What many not so linux sawy people does is installing a full version of a linux with a graphical windows interface like Gnu or Kde so the machine can be managed mostly without hacking in a command shell (point and click the mouse) This seems not so ligth weigth at first, but SqueezeCenter runs as a service so it starts before anybody logs in to the machine. So if you not logging in, the GUI never starts during normal use, you are wasting some disk space at most i think,the GUI will of course be slow on low power machines but you only have to suffer it for admin tasks. Can you temporarily attach a keyboard and a monitor to the rip server ? (which you of course removes when it's running as it should ) There is of course a dozen other equally good linuxes i forgot to mention. Do you have a friend or colleague that uses Linux ? use whatever he/she is using, then you can have support for beer and pizza . My desktop is Ubuntu because I have no such friend, but Ubuntu a have a large online community with good help on their website. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60867 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
