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    Does anyone know howto install GeeXbox with existing Linux Distro?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by rockharder, Jan 11, 2007.

  1. rockharder

    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    Anyone know tested steps to install GeeXbox into partition and can be booted from existing Grub with whatever existing Linux destro?

    I would like to use that to replace my QuickPlayer partition.
     
    rockharder, Jan 11, 2007
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  2. Ditig

    Ditig Notebook Geek

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    Can't help much but I can recommend that you do all your testing in VMware so that you don't have to physically reboot your machine all the time. By the way, what's the problem with GeeXbox and installing it on a partition? According to http://www.geexbox.org/wiki/index.php/Installation it shouldn't be difficult. Once installed, adding a grub entry should be trivial
     
    Ditig, Jan 14, 2007
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    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    Problem is I want to stay with current GRUB and don't want to replace it with a new one.
     
    rockharder, Jan 14, 2007
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    Is there an option to install grub at the beginning of the partition instead of at the beginning of the hard drive? If not, what you can do is make a backup of your current MBR and then recopy it after installing GeeXbox. For example, if you have the partition for GeeXbox created (but you still haven't installed), you can boot up using a live cd and then do the following (I'm assuming your hard drive is sda and that you've put in a USB flash and that it's accessible via sdb1):

    mkdir /mnt/sdb1
    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
    dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/mbr bs=512 count=1
    umount /mnt/sdb1
    Install GeeXbox
    GeeXbox takes over the MBR
    Reboot using a live cd and copy back the original mbr. It's the exact same as above but the dd command would be different:
    dd if=/mnt/sdb1/mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

    Once you've done that, your old MBR should be back in place. You'd just have to add a GRUB entry for GeeXbox.

    PS. As I mentioned above, try this all out in VMware first and then try it on your machine.
     
    Ditig, Jan 15, 2007
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