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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on March 21, 2011, 01:52:51 pm ---you guys are sure making it hard not to give this a try on linux now!!!
How would I go about setting this up for a hard drive install? I have a empty 500GB HD that I could move my roms and snaps to if need be.
I burned the CD (1.515 64bit) and was able to get the packed in games to work...just wasn't smart enough to figure out how to get it to see my NTFS drive where my roms and snaps have been for my XP setup. I wasn't able to figure out how to get it to boot from the HD either...I thought I had it, but everytime I rebooted to the 500GB HD it stalled.
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I'm not sure, but might be something about the size of the drive that the grub boot loader doesn't work. What message does it say or where does it stall?
To setup the NTFS drive you have to access either the http web interface and configure it (username: admin password: arcade). It's sort of a pain though, and I need to add an automatic option to ask to set it up the mounting of it. One quick way to mount it is running this on the console: `sudo mount -t -ntfs /dev/hda1 /data/` or whatever drive the NTFS drive is (use `sudo fdisk -l` and look for which is the NTFS type). Then you can change the advancemenu config to point to the right locations and test it that way.
I'll look into making the NTFS setup easy from the setup menu, something I haven't focused on but shouldn't be too much trouble at all. The grub issue is odd, I'm possibly going to try and redo the way I do autopartitioning and drive setup to hopefully fix the issue. Probably need to make a small /boot partition for the kernel and grub to setup on, and I'm guessing that should solve the issues with grub and an install being able to boot. Hopefully by next weekend I have a lot of that done, maybe sooner if I get time.
Calamity:
--- Quote ---* The image with Linux booting messages, the configuration menu and for Advmenu are too wide for my monitor. (I am using Wells Gardner K7000). There is no control for the image width in the monitor chassis, is it possible to adjust it in the software.
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If you don't have the horizontal size coil adjustment your manual explains, then you can easily tweak your modelines to fit in the screen by calculating bigger borders. I'm not sure if the modelines used during boot are actually editable or just prefixed there, I remember soft-15Khz modelines were used for that at some point, don't know how it's done right now.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: Calamity on March 21, 2011, 03:16:20 pm ---
--- Quote ---* The image with Linux booting messages, the configuration menu and for Advmenu are too wide for my monitor. (I am using Wells Gardner K7000). There is no control for the image width in the monitor chassis, is it possible to adjust it in the software.
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If you don't have the horizontal size coil adjustment your manual explains, then you can easily tweak your modelines to fit in the screen by calculating bigger borders. I'm not sure if the modelines used during boot are actually editable or just prefixed there, I remember soft-15Khz modelines were used for that at some point, don't know how it's done right now.
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The frame buffer ones are calculated with switchres previously, and hardcoded and compiled into the kernel as a table of modelines. So they can't change dynamically on bootup unfortunately. Possibly putting the basic modeline calculation into the kernel and utilizing the margin capability would be solution, I haven't thought about that for awhile but should probably be the best way to do it. I'll look into that possibly soon.
kevinp:
This is a tremendous contribution to the community, bitbytebit. I'll definitely be trying out the new ISO's soon. I think that your distro will be a serious platform to use on MAME cabs, as Linux really should be *the* MAME platform for the future.
Thank you so much.. I think donation will be in order soon
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: kevinp on March 22, 2011, 07:32:09 pm ---This is a tremendous contribution to the community, bitbytebit. I'll definitely be trying out the new ISO's soon. I think that your distro will be a serious platform to use on MAME cabs, as Linux really should be *the* MAME platform for the future.
Thank you so much.. I think donation will be in order soon
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Thanks, I've been working on a big change for the next ISO versions which hopefully really makes the grub and partitioning issues vanish. Things hopefully will be a lot easier, auto partitioning now creates a separate /boot drive that's ext2 (probably will make grub always work on all systems) the home drive is separate and now roms are going to be under /home/roms/* . Also hopefully the mounting of the /home/roms/ drive will work fine for NTFS (readonly, will need to configure advancemenu for the dir structure your NTFS uses) This basically is aiming at some of the issues and hopefully will make automatic installing even better, hopefully have this out by the end of the week or weekend. I'm trying to really make the whole setup of the drives both simpler for the user but really more advanced technically with different partitions for /boot, yet won't require the user to know any of that and hopefully just installs cleanly.