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XBMC Guide updated to version 10.0 August 06, 2010
Building a Green PC February 15, 2010
Building an ION powered HTPC with XBMC October 10, 2008
The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008" September 12, 2008
"Florian", the DVD burning robot September 05, 2008
The "i-EPIA" May 22, 2008
The "GTA-PC" April 14, 2007
The "Digg" Case January 19, 2007
The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" |
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The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" May 10, 2005
The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" |
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The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" January 23, 2004
The "Attache Server" January 22, 2004
"Racing The Light" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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Building an ION powered Home Theatre PC with XBMC 10.0
Installing XBMC to HDD (or SSD)
Requirements:
- Your assembled ION system
- Your XBMC Live USB key
- Your BIOS set to boot from USB
- A Keyboard
- A TV or Monitor
Instructions
- With the system off, insert your XBMC Live USB key into an available USB port (any front or back USB ports is suitable).
- Select your USB Key from the boot device list.
- When presented with the following screen, ensure you choose "Install XBMCLive to disk"
- Select your language (we are choosing English):
- Choose your region:
- The XBMC installer will now begin.
- Choose "Guided - use entire disk.
Warning : Any existing data on your mini-itx system will now be wiped. If you have any doubts do not proceed past this point!
- Just select the disk as shown below:
- The install is warning you that your disk is about to be erased. If your sure, select yes and press enter.
- The XBMC installer will now put a filesystem onto your hard-disk and begin copying files.
- The next section will ask you to create a user account for remote/local administration. You can choose anything you like here but I recommend that you choose "xbmc" as this used to be the default in previous versions of XBMC. This means that any documentation you find which was written before XBMC 10.0 will still make sense.
- If you chose "xbmc" on the previous section then just take the defaults here.
- You will now be asked to choose a password. You are free to choose whatever you like here, for the sake of simplicity I have chosen "xbmc" which is pretty poor security but its easier on the memory-banks.
- If you do choose a weak password the installer will warn you, you can either choose a stronger password or just choose <Yes> and continue. We've chosen to live with a weak password.
- You don't really need to know the technical details of this next screen. It's asking you where you want to put the GRUB bootloader. Just leave it as the default (in this case and most-likely yours this will say /dev/sda) and press enter.
- Your installation is now complete! once you select <Continue> in the following box your system will shutdown and power-off. This is normal.
- Once your system is off remove your XBMC Installation USB stick, then power-on your system. Your machine should begin to boot XBMC.
- If all has gone to plan you should be presented with the following home page in XBMC.
At this point you might wish to:
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