Install DidJiX from Linux



After being downloaded, the image file must be  installed  on a usb device.

Since DidJiX 1.0, the device must have a storage capacity equal to or greater than 2Gb.

THE CONTENT OF THE SELECTED DEVICE WILL BE ERASED WITH THE CONTENT OF DidJiX !

From Linux, redirect the downloaded image file to the good device:


 umount /dev/sdx*
 cat DidJiX.a.b.iso > /dev/sdx


The command umount may return errors that you can ignore. DidJiX.a.b.iso  is the downloaded image file and  /dev/sdx  the usb device selected for DidJiX.

To detect the good usb device, unplug it if needed, plug it and then run the command:


 dmesg | tail


You will see something like this:


 [41763.181789] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
 [41763.181795] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 [41763.182627] sdb: sdb1
 [41763.186668] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
 [41763.186673] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 [41763.186681] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk


In this example, the usb device is  /dev/sdb .

Since DidJiX 1.0, the extended partition - where there's your musics, your scripts and your Mixxx preferences - is preserved when you upgrade your DidJiX device. However, two precautions are better than one, make a backup of it...

Note that the downloaded image file can also be burned onto a cdrom disc and that you must have privileges to install it on removable media.

4 comments:

  1. Hello,
    More and more often Linux distributions automatically mount removable media when inserted.
    It might be good to unmount it before installing DidJiX...

    umount /dev/sdx*
    cat DidJiX.a.b.iso > /dev/sdx

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  2. Thank you for that.
    I update the page.

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  3. Hi, I am able to install the iso to a USB or SD card and boot to MIXX with it but I am not able to setup the USB to use the extra space as a second partition for the music.
    The ::DidJiX:: firt partition does not show under fdisk (linux) and the partition table seems to be empty. I tried to create the second partition and fix the MBR with several different tools with no luck (cfdisk, fdisk, fixparts...)

    Any clue?

    Thanks for all the work on DidJiX, it works really fine, apart from my problem ;)

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    1. Hi,

      Install the iso (1.1) on your removable device, boot it and DidJiX will automagicly do the job :-).

      If this fail, it's probably because this device is too small (http://didjix.blogspot.fr/2013/01/at-least-2gb.html)...

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