You WILL upgrade!

So I was seeing if I could get Omni/Lamnan to talk to the Livebox’s built in server and – you can but you need to know stuff not immediately obvious. If you have a Livebox (v2 (or later?)) and it has a USB device plugged in, you CAN talk to it via RISC OS… Just set the “server” to the habitual IP address of the Livebox (192.168.1.1) and set the directory (LanMan) or share (LanMan98) to “DisquesUSB”. A server will appear (called Livebox or 192.168.1.1), click on that and “Livebox” will appear on the iconbar. Click on that and it’ll open a directory viewer with “Storage_Device” within. Your files are in there.

Under Windows, set Explorer (files, not MSIE) to “\\livebox” and work your way down the folders until you find it.

It is sooo much easier with VLC on iOS – just go to “Local network” and it’ll appear as a uPNP device, choose it, choose videos, choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose… wait, that’s not right :-) choose all video files, and there they all are. Basically, there’s a messed-with version of Twonky in the Livebox.

Since I had a pile of video files, I wondered if any stood a chance of working with RISC OS’s port of MPlayer. Not really. The initial frame appeared and some stuttery sound. The Vonets was blinking like crazy, maybe not enough data fast enough? I pressed ESC to stop and the machine froze.

One reset later and I was ready to be a homicidal maniac. Grrrr-argh! Stupid thing was giving me the “one copy of map corrupt, we suggest *Checkmap even though everybody knows that is too inept to do anything”. As I could still mount the device, I decided to skip the easy route of restoring from a recent image and instead downloaded the RC12 and installed that, then dropped the latest nightly image on top.
I put this into a USB card reader and loaded it into the Pi. A draggy-droppy later and my files were copied across with the exception of the RISC OS source tree (takes ages and I want to update to a newer one anyway).
I run a demo of DiscKnight on the new SD to ensure the structure is good. It is. So back into the PC it goes for an image to be taken of it.

New SD in the Pi, time to boot it…

• Sorry to the person having problems with RC12. It started up right away. But I did change CONFIG.TXT (to suit my HDMI→VGA) and RISCOS.IMG (to latest).
• I like the “Status” added to the network hardware settings. Very oddly, given an unconfigured machine and no DHCP that it was reporting the correct IP address and gateway. So I configured networking via the somewhat painful process (that is crying out for a “wizard”!) and rebooted for it to take effect.
• NetSurf totally crashed during its initial font scan. Looking in the log, the backtrace was something like “nsfont” so I deleted everything in !Fonts and added them a few at a time, running NetSurf again each time. It worked. I do wonder if it was freaking out over the non-font “Themes” directory.
• Crap. I forgot DigitalCD and ZapFonts. Mounted the broken SD in the USB reader and then remembered I had to RMKill Fat32FS for it to mount the other partition. That done, it mounted and didn’t say a word about the supposed corruption or map damage. Hmmm… More draggy-droppy and that stuff is copied over. I am now listening to a 192kbps stream of AnimeNFO from…San José I think.
• The screen resolution (in Config) returned a gibberish menu. Wasn’t this fixed? I downloaded and copied across !ScrnSetup from the beta Harddisc image. That fixed it. :-)
• MIDI module builds fine, so I think the C dev is all good. I don’t think I’ve forgotten anything. Won’t pull RISC OS tonight, though. It’s gone midnight. I’m going to go have a soak and take an earlyish night, by 1 or 1.30¹.
  
  

Frankly… I have no idea why I turned on the Pi in the first place. Long forgotten. But at least now I’m running the latest bits and pieces.

¹ Let’s just say yesterday was a public holiday in France, today was a bridge-day off work, and so I got a little involved with a PS2 game called “Project Zero”, only stopping when the battery on my eeePC pooped out. The eeePC’s power supply runs the PS2, and the eeePC (on battery) runs a USB TV tuner to convert the PS2’s video output into something I can see on a VGA monitor. Pretty much the same setup as I used to use with the Pi/Beagle except the eeePC could remain powered. When did I go to sleep? No idea. I powered down and went straight to bed. I’m not even sure I had anything to eat…tant pis hein?

Mounted the broken SD in the USB reader and then remembered I had to RMKill Fat32FS for it to mount the other partition.

No need to kill it, use right button on the icon. FAT32FS ignores it and SCSIFS gets it:-)

Didn’t seem to work. RMKill was the quickest solution.

Didn’t seem to work. RMKill was the quickest solution.

You can’t have a mounted FAT partition and right click to get to SCSIFS. But once you have a directory viewer open with SCSIFS then you can left click and have both partitions open. You can even copy between them!