Openelec

[Speedster]

My Raspberry Pi finally arrived this morning and I'd like to fire it up this evening with Openelec. Only thing is my SD card is 512MB and I can't seem to find any pre-compiled images for it - they all seem to be for 1GB cards. I don't have a linux box so I have to prep the SD card on my Mac or a PC.

Anybody know where I can get an image for a 512MB card?

 

[cenredash]

Why not raspbmc?

 

[Speedster]

Why not raspbmc?

Pretty much everyone I've spoken to says Openelec is better.

 

[cenredash]

I have raspbmc on mine and I have had no problems!

 

[Keeper]

Openelec.tv doesn't work for me at the moment, so I only have these links for you:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi/FAQ#Installing_XBMC_on_the_Raspberry_Pi
http://www.raspbmc.com/download

 

[cenredash]

I would defer to Keeper.
Btw Keeper, thanks for all your other useful threads and posts!

 

[Keeper]

No Problem cenredash

@Speedster - here is the official build for OpenELEC 3.0:
http://releases.openelec.tv/OpenELEC-RPi.arm-2.99.2.tar.bz2

It's 86MB.

Setup Instructions:
http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_Pi

 

[Keeper]

Okay I see that instruction wiki has almost nothing, and they point you to openelec.tv - but they are DOWN for maintenance.

I've found this, hope it helps!
http://www.squirrelhosting.co.uk/hosting-blog/hosting-blog-info.php?id=9

That site has pictures and everything, you cant go wrong on that site!

 

[Speedster]

No Problem cenredash

@Speedster - here is the official build for OpenELEC 3.0:
http://releases.openelec.tv/OpenELEC-RPi.arm-2.99.2.tar.bz2

It's 86MB.

Setup Instructions:
http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_Pi

Thanks. That doesn't extract to an iso image though which, if I understand correctly, I need to prepare the sd card from my Mac. Or am I missing something?

EDIT: make that an img image.

 

[Speedster]

Okay I see that instruction wiki has almost nothing, and they point you to openelec.tv - but they are DOWN for maintenance.

I've found this, hope it helps!
http://www.squirrelhosting.co.uk/hosting-blog/hosting-blog-info.php?id=9

That site has pictures and everything, you cant go wrong on that site!

That site does link to a download page with files around 90mb, but they all (at least the ones I downloaded) extract to about 1GB.

 

[Keeper]

Ah, I see now on the OpenELEC for Raspberry Pi Wiki

OpenELEC is designed to keep the OS separate from the user-writeable storage area. This requires two partitions on the SD card:

Partition #1 mounts as /flash and is 128MB in size, is labelled as “System” and will be FAT32 formatted. It holds the SYSTEM and kernel.img files that the OpenELEC OS is uncompressed from at boot-time (approx. 80-90MB), and essential boot files including the bootloader.
Partition #2 mounts as /storage and uses the remaining space on the SD card. It will be labelled as “Storage” and is EXT4 formatted. It should be a minimum of 512MB to store XBMC settings, database files, image caches, SSH keys and the swapfile (256MB), but in practice a larger 4GB or 8GB card is a more sensible size.

seems you are SOL and need to get yourself a 1GB SD card