[Announce] SlimCD 1.8

[mherger]

I'm pleased to announce SlimCD 1.8 for download.

SlimCD is a complete operating system which will boot from CD. It features
all you need to run SlimServer including many of the community's favourite
plugins. Your SlimServer will be up and running within a few minutes
without the need to install anything!

SlimCD is now featuring the latest and greatest SlimServer 6.5, many
updated Plugins and SoftSqueeze in Transporter's clothes.

Please note: SlimCD 1.8 does _not_ contain AlienBBC due to an unresolved
issue with mplayer. But I did not want to delay the SlimServer 6.5 based
SlimCD any longer. There will be a 1.81 with AlienBBC support as soon as
possible. Stay tuned.

You'll find more information about SlimCD:
http://www.herger.net/SlimCD

Have fun!

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Michael

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[gorstk]

Michael Herger wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce SlimCD 1.8 for download.
>
> SlimCD is a complete operating system which will boot from CD. It features
> all you need to run SlimServer including many of the community's favourite
> plugins. Your SlimServer will be up and running within a few minutes
> without the need to install anything!
>
> SlimCD is now featuring the latest and greatest SlimServer 6.5, many
> updated Plugins and SoftSqueeze in Transporter's clothes.
>
> Please note: SlimCD 1.8 does _not_ contain AlienBBC due to an unresolved
> issue with mplayer. But I did not want to delay the SlimServer 6.5 based
> SlimCD any longer. There will be a 1.81 with AlienBBC support as soon as
> possible. Stay tuned.
>
> You'll find more information about SlimCD:
> http://www.herger.net/SlimCD

Have you thought about publishing a vmware image of each slimcd image?
(p.s. there are ways of doing this using the free vmware player and
freely available utilities)

These could then be ran on the (freely available) vmware player on users
systems whatever OS they have.
Good for those people who like the latest cutting edge beta of their os
(or even run windwos) but dont like this to break there slimserver
installation! (like me who just upgraded from ubuntu 5 to 6)

[mherger]

> Have you thought about publishing a vmware image of each slimcd image?

Yes I have. But as it's really simple to set it up yourself I did not.

> (p.s. there are ways of doing this using the free vmware player and
> freely available utilities)

You mean like described here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...=vmware+slimcd

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[ltb76]

Hi Michael,

Have you tried doing a HD install?
I can’t get the slimserver to start – I get:
cp: cannot stat /KNOPPIX/etc/.slimserver.pref: No such file or directory
and the the slimserver daemon exits.

I’ve tried in VMWare and on a real machine – the 1.8beta did not seem to have this issue.

I’ve looked at my 1.8 install, and it does not have a /KNOPPIX folder / mount (neither does the 1.8beta)

Any ideas to why this happens?

Lasse

[mherger]

> Have you tried doing a HD install?

No, never. DSL folks suggest using the frugal install for easier update.
That's what I've been doing.

> I can’t get the slimserver to start – I get:

How do you start your slimserver? If there is a /etc/.slimserver.pref copy
it over to /opt/slimserver/slimserver.pref. Does it start then?

> I’ve looked at my 1.8 install, and it does not have a /KNOPPIX folder /
> mount (neither does the 1.8beta)

Did any other version ever have it?

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[ltb76]

Actually I'm not sure how the SlimCD has been behaving when doing HD installs before the 1.8b - I was just re-thinking my slimserver install and was therefore trying the HD install.

Why have you included these files in the backup:
tmp/.slimcache/my.cnf
tmp/.slimcache/MySQL
What info is stored in the tmp partition?

Anyway - as always great work with the SlimCD

Lasse

[mherger]

> Why have you included these files in the backup:
> tmp/.slimcache/my.cnf

Because I _thought_ it was the MySQL configuration. It actually is, but in
the meanwhile I've learned that it's re-created at ever slimserver start.
It therefore needn't be backuped.

> tmp/.slimcache/MySQL

That's the database containing all the song information. If you don't want
to re-run a scan at every reboot, back it up.

> What info is stored in the tmp partition?

Temporary files? :-) Don't quite understand what you mean. tmp isn't a
partition, but a folder.

> Anyway - as always great work with the SlimCD

Thanks. I'm always happy to see how people are using my stuff :-)

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[ltb76]

> What info is stored in the tmp partition?

Temporary files? :-) Don't quite understand what you mean. tmp isn't a
partition, but a folder.

My point - I thought it was odd to backup temporary files

[mherger]

> My point - I thought it was odd to backup temporary files

Ok, I see. But as SlimServer not only stores temporary files (eg. cached
content downloaded from internet radio providers) in there, but the
database, too, it does make sense.

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Michael

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[MillmoorRon]

Does it support SATA drives?