Talk:XBMC Live

Where can I get more involved in this project. I have similar goals and I want to start working on them, but I have some disagreements with some of the dev concepts.

Bain 12:07, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

USB instructions
There aren't adequate USB installation instructions. This is really vague. There should be clear instructions for creating a bootable USB drive. I've tried dd to write the ISO to a flash drive and running syslinux and install-mbr against it. Still no dice. —sidewaysmilk 00:46, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

This is what it currently says.
 * 1) Download the ISO image, burn it just like any ISO image to a CD-R/RW.
 * 2) If you going to install to USB then first disconnect all USB storage devices that you do not want to install to.
 * 3) Boot your computer on the CD-R/RW and follow the instructions on the screen.
 * If you choose to install to USB then make sure that you do not set the permanent storage area to "None" as it will then not save any settings or changes you make after a reboot.

More about USB Instructions
I agree with the person above, the instructions are poor. Furthermore, requiring a CD first rather defeats the purpose. I want to run this on a completely diskless system: no HD, no CD/DVD. So either: (a) Is there a procedure to create a bootable USB that does not require a CD first; or (b) Can the procedure to create the bootable USB be run on a completely different computer with a completely different configuration from the one that will run XMBC? I.e., does the process that installs from CD to USB ascertain system configuration and set up drivers or config files? If it does, that's no good at all, people will need a procedure to create bootable USBs with no CD involvement.