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Is there a procedure to move an XBMC live installation from HDD to USB. Without re installation of drivers and modules? Can we just copy the image files from /sda1 to /sdb1
MadCowDzz
2009-02-09, 23:02
bpms, I don't intend to hijack your thread, but I was actually about to post a similar question... I'm interested in moving from my current USB to a bigger one... is it as simple as copying files over?
tim_wang
2009-02-10, 01:01
No. When you installed XBMC 8.10 Live to your HDD, it created a fat partition up to 2 GB to stores its configuration files and images, an ext2 swap partition, and an ext3 partition from the remaining drive space for /home.
So if you want to move your XBMC installation to a new HDD, you will have to recreate the above partitions on the new HDD, and then copy all the files in the old fat and ext3 partitions to their new respective partitions.
l.capriotti
2009-02-10, 10:28
Actually, if you know how to:
- prepare a fat partition on the HD
- put syslinux on it
- copy all the files that are on the flash disk there
- amend the syslinux.cfg by specifying boot=disk on each entry
you are all set (maybe :) ).
The installer does all these things, although it uses a different partitioning scheme.