HTPC Image n00b question
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Feb 04, 2016, 03:18 PM
Going through the guides, I am stuck at getting this file: Banana.Pi.Pro.HTPCGuides.Installer.PMP.Jessie.4.2.6 onto the VMWare player to mess with my settings, and then getting that image back over to the SD card to the Banana Pi (the second part of the process seems to make sense). Can anybody dumb this part down, how do I get a .img file to run in VMWare? what converter software do you guys recommend?
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Feb 04, 2016, 03:47 PM
I am guessing you are trying to resize your Banana Pi sd image that you've already wrote to an sd card and prepared using this guide?
Can you please point out which part is confusing? You do not mount the Banana Pi img with VMPlayer, you connect an sd card with the Banana Pi img written to the card and dump it in the Ubuntu virtual machine.
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Feb 04, 2016, 04:16 PM
(Feb 04, 2016, 03:47 PM)Mike Wrote: I am guessing you are trying to resize your Banana Pi sd image that you've already wrote to an sd card and prepared using this guide?
Can you please point out which part is confusing? You do not mount the Banana Pi img with VMPlayer, you connect an sd card with the Banana Pi img written to the card and dump it in the Ubuntu virtual machine.
Yes, I have read that guide, haven't tried that process yet. I was still stuck on installing the HTPC setup through the virtual machine since I was stuck at the image part on the guide, that makes more sense though.
I have the image on my SD card, I guess I just need to setup VMWare to access the SD card. Am I having the VM boot from the SD card then? I haven't work through that part of the process, so I'm not sure where I will run into an issue. How I read the guide is that I have the image running in VMWare already (somehow), and once I perform changes to my config/system, then I write/clone back to the image stored on the SD card. I don't read a part as to how I'm getting the image on the SD Card to the VM really. Let me try working it some more, I will see If this clears up, Thanks.
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Feb 04, 2016, 04:37 PM
What do you mean by 'installing the HTPC setup through the virtual machine?'
Is your goal to just write the image to an SD card and use it on your Banana Pi or is it to back up the sd card?
You do not use the virtual machine to run the Banana P image. That guide is for users with an sd card that has the Banana pi image written to it that they wish to back up and resize.
I would love to know which parts need clarification so others don't get confused so please do let me know which sentences or sections are creating the confusion.
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Feb 04, 2016, 05:19 PM
(Feb 04, 2016, 04:37 PM)Mike Wrote: What do you mean by 'installing the HTPC setup through the virtual machine?'
Is your goal to just write the image to an SD card and use it on your Banana Pi or is it to back up the sd card?
You do not use the virtual machine to run the Banana P image. That guide is for users with an sd card that has the Banana pi image written to it that they wish to back up and resize.
I would love to know which parts need clarification so others don't get confused so please do let me know which sentences or sections are creating the confusion.
OK, let me start from the beginning. I started here. I also downloaded then Banana Pi image located here. I guess my first point of confusion is located under the section labeled "Install HTPC Guides Media Server Installer."
I have two choices, clone the image to an SD card on my Banana Pi, or download the installer. Here I am assuming that the Ubuntu VM I just installed is what I am going to clone onto my SD card. Are these two guides written to be performed in conjunction with each other?
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Feb 04, 2016, 10:18 PM
OK, the virtual machine can be used for testing the HTPC Guides installer which is not the image but the simple installer located on github.
The virtual machine guide is for users who want to test things before they try on a real physical device. It is also for people that want to resize their sd card using gparted on Ubuntu.
The option to download the installer on a Banana Pi is for users who already have bananian or armbian on their Banana Pi sd card and just want to git clone the latest installer from github.
Does that clear things up?
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Feb 04, 2016, 10:32 PM
(Feb 04, 2016, 10:18 PM)Mike Wrote: OK, the virtual machine can be used for testing the HTPC Guides installer which is not the image but the simple installer located on github.
The virtual machine guide is for users who want to test things before they try on a real physical device. It is also for people that want to resize their sd card using gparted on Ubuntu.
The option to download the installer on a Banana Pi is for users who already have bananian or armbian on their Banana Pi sd card and just want to git clone the latest installer from github.
Does that clear things up?
OK, that makes sense, I play around in the Ubuntu part, screw things up there, and then go try the real thing on the Banana Pi. Yes, that makes sense. I was under the impression that I set everything up under Ubuntu, then clone to the SD card, then insert that into the Banana Pi and it's all setup. I wouldn't have to really touch the Banana Pi because the setting were already done in Ubuntu. I have the Banana Pi up and running; going through the HTPC install right now, everything seems fine. Thanks, sorry for being a little obtuse!
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Feb 04, 2016, 10:47 PM
Glad to clarify, added some more info to the banana pi media server image page too being explicit that the installer is a script on github
Do note that there are differences between the banana pi and an ubuntu virtual machine. I have made the installer compatible for both but performance on each will differ.
No worries, new stuff can be confusing, your feedback has helped clarify things for future users
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