Greg (and others);
I took a quick look through, this is wonderful, thank you for the effort to date. I do have a thought though... When I setup my first picore player, I followed the "how to" step by step and was successful, but often didn't understand "why", what the purpose of the step was. For example "resize the file system", "Move Cache and prefs", etc. After a lot of time in these forums, addressing issues, reading the efforts of others, I slowly understood much of what those steps mean, what they are actually doing. I got to understand the system. Of course following the how tos I got up and operational quick, I just didn't fully understand what I had just built, and therefore what I could/should change. For example, I get frequent power failures with a picore (server only) and attached USB HDD. The power interruptions caused the HDD mount to get lost. I had to remount the HDD and sometimes rebuild LMS. All this because I moved Cache and Prefs to the HDD. Now, I keep them on the SD, in fact, I created a third partition on the SD for cache and prefs (per a recommendation from Paul). I never understood what the step meant, or that it was not required to have an operational system. I now (through the forums) know. So, if I can make a suggestion (I would be willing to help if I could), maybe think to add some "what it is you are doing and why" to the steps. EG: 1) Why do I have to resize the file system? Are there factors that would make a user want to make it even bigger? 2) When I am moving cache and prefs, what does this mean? Even adding, "this step is recommended but optional because..." Not trying to create extra work, just thought I would give you a perspective from the experience I went through as a LMS vet, but a Picore noob (at the time). I might have been more mystified if I was a full noob :) Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112996 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
