Clone to USB
CurlyMoo opened this issue · 9 comments
It would be nice to have a clone to usb function with the initramfs. So if a user boots with a usb drive (partition) as root, and it doesn't include an XBian install yet, XBian will transfer itself automatically to the usb (partition). This can be the same for NFS.
I'm doing rsync -arv -x / /newroot ... & reboot done.
You can also think about a function that partitions the drive if no valid partition exists, so it's noob proof.
You realized I put label and uuid options to use, generalized the root to any /dev and prepared the resizings & checks the same way. We are getting there. Or at least making this easier by every day.
I know, that's why i'm giving suggestions for cool new possibilities within the new features 😄
I'm not so far still, more realistic, but my real target for next release is enabling such games as we are capable of (by rewriting scripts) to standard users without them to let's say actually understand deep tech.
One at a time of course
@CurlyMoo please, as I was reiplementing the quit/reboot/shutdown with upstart, I realized, that the actions are taking too long to close xbmc. due running python scripts not able for xbmc to kill them.
so I just commented all the lines from plugin.xbianconfig/services.py and xbmc is restarting (closing / rebooting) instantly without the waiting. can you look into it? or is it again only my local issue ?
You need to contact @belese for those issues. Post a bug report in the xbian-config-python repo.
ok