Just popped in as I subscribed to this thread
The workaround for 6 drives is to use the 4 sata in the caddy, the single sata for the 5.25 bay & then running a cable from the external sata to the 3.5" bay.
I looked at the 6 bay on scan before, but opted against it as its for 2.5" drives.
Any of the USB's should be bootable - Ive booted xbmc live using the usb ports on the front - I use the internal one for a wifi usb adapter.
For Ipad users, theres 2 awesome remotes constellation (my fav)
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=104567and the offical app xbmc commander
http://www.xbmc-commander.com/Anyone wanting to use XBMC live & install to a HDD - heres my quick & dirty guide
networkingsudo pico /etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid home (home being my wireless network name)
file serversudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install samba
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
[xbmc]
comment = XBMC Share
path = /media (media being where my shares are setup)
force user = xbmc
inherit permissions = yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
mounting hard drives
mk dir /media/hdd1
mkdir /media/hdd2
mkdir /media hdd3
sudo nano /etc/fstab
UUID=0E74F72674F70F69 /media/hdd1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 (the random characters are drive specific - in this case I am mounting 3 drives)
UUID=22209A40209A1ABD /media/hdd2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 (you can get your random characters from running linux version of fdisk)
UUID=26F6D5C1F6D59203 /media/hdd3 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
HDMI sound
Create a asound.conf file as follows : sudo nano /etc/asound.conf (this is how I got sound working on my micro-server to a zotac nvidia card)
Add the following text into the file, and save :
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hw:0,3"
rate 48000
}
}
updating nvidia drivers
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
And skip the x-config, as it tends to kill XBMC autostart.
sab nzb - work in progress
sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus
sudo nano /etc/default/sabnzbdplus
You'll need to change two settings to get the application to work properly: USER and PORT. I usually just set the USER to the account XBMC runs on by default 'XBMC' and set the PORT to '8080'. This means you will later access the web interface via
http://XBMCIP:8080/sabnzbd/http://boshdirect.com- good stuff there
Thats all the sh*t I need to do when my linux server crashes after I play around - only takes me 20mins to get everything up & running into a usable state.
now im going back in to wilderness.. cherio