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Title: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: Robert S on January 13, 2005, 08:05:23 am

Has anyone experience in installing MC on a diskless PC (thin Client) with "Windows XP Embedded" ?

I tried today but fails "not enough memory", but the flashdisk has 100 Megs free.

/R

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: JimH on January 13, 2005, 08:39:12 am

It's possible that one of the default file locations is set to C: something.  Try changing it if you can or try reassigning the drive in Windows.

Error messages are often wrong.

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: VGuarino on January 13, 2005, 12:47:21 pm

I'm doing some assuming here as I don't know the hardware you are using, but the flash disk is just that, a disk. If you are running out of memory, that would be RAM. If you are running out of swap space, that would be the Flash (The OS also resides there before loading into RAM).

V

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: KingSparta on January 13, 2005, 12:53:33 pm

sometimes windows will give a "not enough memory" message when windows is set to a low swap drive space (128 megs etc....), and you attempt to load a program.

I found if you allow windows to manage swap space is always better.

of couse you need to have a hard drive.

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: Robert S on January 14, 2005, 01:19:31 am

I'm using a HP T5700 with 256MB FLASH. Perhaps I need to install more memory.

It has two "drives". Drive C: 98 (MB free) and drive Z: (RAMDISK, 15 MB free) The rest is taken by XP Embedded, IE6 and Microsoft Mediaplayer.

I double-click the installation file "MediaCenter110162.exe " and soon after this, only one little "blipp" on the progressbar later I get this error message: "Write error, probably the disk is full".

/R

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: GHammer on January 14, 2005, 01:30:59 am

My J River directory is 38 Mb. But there would be whatever space it needs to install using temp files, etc.
What does the directory tree look like for XP Embedded? What I mean is the C: drive tree.

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: Robert S on January 14, 2005, 01:44:29 am

I just tested to move 30 MB from the C: disk to the z: ram-disk and after this the installation proceeded and MC worked fine!
/R

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: GHammer on January 14, 2005, 01:48:33 am

Good deal, glad you figured it out.

Title: Re: MC on XP Embeded?
Post by: Robert S on January 14, 2005, 01:58:28 am

Yeah. I moved back memory to the C: disk after installtion and MC still works fine. I guess the installation process needed some extra memmory to unpack files etc.

If anyone is looking for  a completely silent media player I'd surely a system like this. There's no moving parts in it and it doesn't make any sound at all, and it's not expensive. Since it has not much memory, a external USB-disk or a network connected disk is nessesary for the media library (I don't recomend using Media Library Server due to it's present limitations).

It is also possilbe to buy it with Linux instead of XP Embedded, but the I guess installing MC really would be difficult.... ;-)


/R