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10:08 am
August 28, 2009

Andrew

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We now have a BETA repo so the VortexBox community can help test new version of VortexBox software. To install BETA software fisrt make sure you are running the latest regular version type

yum update

next load the latest from the BETA repo

yum ––enablerepo=vortexboxbeta update

you now have a BETA of the latest version. This software may not be fully working. You can post problem you find with BETA software to thsi forum.

11:38 am
August 30, 2009

HalfBit

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Andrew said:

. . . To install BETA software fisrt make sure you are running the latest regular version type

yum update

. . .

I did the yum update after power cycling the VBA and it seemed to complete successfully. The update required 63 minutes.

Transaction Summary

================================================================================================================

Install 29 Package(s)

Update 95 Package(s)

Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 148 M

. . .

util-linux-ng.i386 0:2.14.1-3.3.fc10 vortexbox.i386 0:0.6-7

ypbind.i386 3:1.20.4-11.fc10 yum.noarch 0:3.2.23-3.fc10

yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.22-1.fc10

Replaced:

lzma.i386 0:4.32.7-1.fc10 system-config-users.noarch 0:1.2.81-1.fc10

Complete!

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]#

####

I do not understand how to interpret much of the above. I checked VortexBox System Information, and see that Distro Name remains Fedora release 10 (Cambridge). I had expected that to be updated to release 11 which I understand some of the backup code depends upon. I do not feel comfortable continuing to the BETA without some advice on what I may have missed or what to do next.

Also:

SqueezeCenter Status
Version: 7.3.3 – 27044 @ Mon Jun 15 14:48:51 PDT 2009
Hostname: vortexbox.localdomain
Server IP Address: 192.168.0.170
Server HTTP Port Number: 9000
Operating system: Red Hat – EN – utf8
Platform Architecture: i686-linux
Perl Version: 5.10.0 – i386-linux-thread-multi
MySQL Version: 5.0.84
Total Players Recognized: 7

3:13 pm
August 30, 2009

James

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Hi Andrew,

So what does 0.9 offer?

I see it will have a USB disk format tool?

What other things?

I am guessing additional features in the web interface.

Cheers,

James

6:35 pm
August 30, 2009

Andrew

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There is a tool to mirror FLAC files as mp3. There is also a USB disk backup tool.

6:45 pm
August 30, 2009

HalfBit

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HalfBit said:

Andrew said:

. . . To install BETA software fisrt make sure you are running the latest regular version type

yum update

. . .

I did the yum update command. It seemed to complete successfully. The update required 63 minutes.

When complete, my VBA reports Fedora 10. Shouldn't it have updated to Fedora 11 to work with the BETA?

What to do?