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Groovy Arcade Linux Live-CD, based on Arch Linux (official update)
MonkeyJug:
great stuff - thanks for the reply.
in that case, i'm finally up and running and everything is working as it should.
i've setup the network so that my arcade machine is connected - i can now just copy across the rom updates as they occur, rather than having to manually remove the hard drive and hook it up to my pc and copy the files across that way, so i'm very happy.
just one last question - in the past, when i've updated grovvymame, i just wiped and reinstalled fresh. as a result, i always lost all my hiscores and cfg files. is there a way to backup and restore these particular files using my network so that i can play about with groovymame updates and stuff and not have to worry about losing them again?
i have tried copy and paste, but it won't let me write those files to the arcade because i don't have the proper permissions - i'm a linux novice...
Ansa89:
--- Quote from: MonkeyJug on March 27, 2012, 08:00:12 am ---just one last question - in the past, when i've updated grovvymame, i just wiped and reinstalled fresh. as a result, i always lost all my hiscores and cfg files. is there a way to backup and restore these particular files using my network so that i can play about with groovymame updates and stuff and not have to worry about losing them again?
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IMHO you are interested only in groovymame updates (because it's the main program of the distro (in a simplistic way)).
For this purpose ves has created a specific menu item under "Extra".
--- Quote from: MonkeyJug on March 27, 2012, 08:00:12 am ---i have tried copy and paste, but it won't let me write those files to the arcade because i don't have the proper permissions - i'm a linux novice...
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When the system complain about wrong permissions, just become root and
--- Code: ---# chown -R your_user:your_group dir_1 dir_2 file_1 blah blah
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MonkeyJug:
hi Ansa89 - thanks, but i am really a linux novice. i don't understand how to 'become root'.
can you elaborate a little bit please? i don't mind tinkering if i'm given just a little bit of help!
edit: can i not just 'own' the entire drive and then copy and paste the backed up hiscores files from my windows pc (on the same network as the groovyarcade)?
Ansa89:
Well, it's a bit hard to explain (in english), but I will try.
In ntfs/fat partition there isn't the concept of ownership (intended as linux intends it), so when you mount a ntfs/fat drive the permission are setted to root (the administrator).
If you manually mount the drive (or you can edit the script which mount the drive), you can pass "-o uid=your_user,gid=your_user" arguments, telling "mount" to set the ownership to specified user and group.
If you can't manually mount the drive, you can copy as root the files of your interest, but after that you must remember to change the ownership with "chown".
You can find a lot of info (better written) about file ownership on google.
To become root: "sudo -i" (even if the correct way should be "su -").
To know who is you: "whoami".
To know which groups you are in: "groups".
ves:
hello, the black screen problem when you exit from advmenu could be produced by plymouth, i will chek it better, it just happened once.
Ansa89, the patch did not know advmenu, if you can send it by mail or publish it here, but I think the problem is plymouth.
MonkeyJug, I will check the folder permissions from samba and local levels to ensure there are no errors on my part.
I have plans to restructure the entire directory Roms, I want to make a folder for system, and each system with settings.
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