ZMLiveCD 2008

robi · Post by **robi** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:50 pm

rdmelin wrote:robi, your question is a perfectly valid one. My comments here should not be seen as discouraging you or anyone from building a new version on Mandriva. Mandriva served me well as my primary distro of choice for at least 6 years, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it for new or experienced linux users. And if you or anyone else want to work on a zm livecd based on a newer Mandriva version I will be glad to help with packaging zoneminder and any other missing dependancies.

When I began the ZMliveCD thing the mklivecd scripts were a Mandrake specific kit to produce livecds from and existing installation. Since then the mklivecd project was been adopted by the pclos developers for their needs. It no longer works with Mandriva. For the last ZMliveCD release I spent many hours hacking on the mklivecd scripts to make them work with Mandriva again. But every new Mandriva release breaks them again and i don't have time to maitain them. Mandriva's draklive scripts (at least last time I looked into it ) dont lend themselves to a customised CD. They just create a system as it would be after a fresh installation. This works well for their purposes and it may work well for an experienced ZM user but many who use ZMliveCD need things preconfigured to an extent or they are lost before they begin.

Another reason I am disinclined to produce another Mandriva based CD is that in a couple of months Mandriva 2009 will be out. And packages for 2008.1 will need to be recompiled for it. And six months later 2009.1 will be here. Because of this treadmill I have moved away from Mandriva for my own use. I am using Archlinux which has a rolling release model. It is working well for me. I can easily keep my systems up to date with the latest versions of applications and never have to reinstall the OS. Upgrades from one distro release to another have never worked for me, probably partly because I am always installing backports and custom packages needed to build some new or development software release (like zoneminder).

But by all means robi, or anyone else, roll up your sleeves and give it a go. You'll learn alot. You'll have something to contribute back to the community. And if you run into snags just ask questions, here or on distro specific forums. I'll do what I can to help.

Thank you for your very detailed answer. Now everything is clear to me.

bb99 · Post by **bb99** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:17 pm

RDMelin has turned out another masterpiece! 48 hours on ZMLinuxOS live cd and no issues at all! Installed easily on older socket A hardware, boot time is very fast, load is down to .5 on four cameras at 640 X 480, configuration is nearly identical with what I would normally use, and PCLinuxOS is my distro of choice. What more can I say? Other than Thankyou!

martymoose · Post by **martymoose** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:31 am

has anyone applied the motion patch as in the 1.23.x thread?

martymoose · Post by **martymoose** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:43 pm

ross i must say the is an outstanding piece of work
it just ran first time very easy

the only prob was that i had to set a domain name before appache would start
this would have to be the distro of choice for me now
i just carnt wait for the improvements as there going to have to be good to beat this pclinuxos livecd version

cheers
now for the motion patch?

marty

hushpuppy · Post by **hushpuppy** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:31 pm

I've been quietly working away on a new Live CD, and am now uploading the first beta version right now (will post url when upload is completed).

Here are some points about it.
1) Debian Based.
2) 275 MB in size.
3) No install neccessary.
4) Persistent option (this means that if you configure a hard drive correctly, anything you do after booting will be stored to hard disk , EG events).
5) toram option, as much as possible runs in ram, slower to boot, but once booted much quicker.
6) wd.conf options - during boot the hard disks are scanned for linux partitions, of those found if a wd.conf file exists in the root (/ not /root ) this is parsed for 3 different settings , xorg (use a local org.conf file), bttv (pass card type to bttv) , and interfaces (copy and load a new interfaces [network] configuration, allows you to load say wireless land drivers, or give a fixed ip)

Full instructions on how to use it will be available shortly after use, but normally you just boot and youve got zm system up and running.

Currently there is no install option, one is planned, but for now it's a low priority, as it's not really needed (by me anyway).

simme · Post by **simme** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:23 am

Hey guys,
first time user here, and somewhat novice on linux. (though I'm ashamed of this- having used it for the past decade off and on)

I love the live cd concept for zoneminder, and the 2008 version is pretty fast.

I just have one problem. When I set off an alarm, the window with the video feed pops down the little "Firefox is missing a plugin" message and asks me to install missing plugin. When I click the button it says "plugin unknown- audio/x-wav" or something like that.

How do I install this plugin? And should it have already been installed on the live cd?

Thanks,
J

martymoose · Post by **martymoose** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:45 am

off the top of my head install the flash plugin

simme · Post by **simme** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:57 pm

got a link?

martymoose · Post by **martymoose** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:38 pm

heres the one i used i think
http://www.lazytechguy.com/2008/01/inst ... ox-on.html

Post by **cordel** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:38 pm

Flash player will not remove this error for mime type audio/x-wav, I think g-streamer has a Mozilla plugin to play wav files or you could just disable the play sound on alarm in ZM and this error will go away.

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:14 am

I think mozplugger is what I've used for this before. It should have been included on the CD but wasn't. You should be able to install it using the synaptic package manager.

curlynostrill · Post by **curlynostrill** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:28 pm

Dude, you've really nailed it this time. ZMLinuxOS_2008 is lite, tight and painless.

I can really appreciate this after a miserably failed attempt on a new Debian.

I also did the 2006 1.22 which was pretty good but seemed to bog down my mini system a bit. That could have been due to using the onboard LAN and VID which I upgraded somewhat. The default camera FPS settings (@5FPS) helped, as well. I was taxing this cheap little te-104 a bit too hard. I also have a WinTV Go card using the composite in and no problems with the two cards at all.

I have a brand new fresh install with 3 cameras configured and I'm wondering if the db backup instructions (here http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 0843#20843) are still valid?

This one is definitely worth a hefty donation.

Thanks.

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:41 am

I have a brand new fresh install with 3 cameras configured and I'm wondering if the db backup instructions (here http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 0843#20843) are still valid?

This function is now included by default so should already be doing it's thing in the background. You could double check by examining /var/log/zmfilter.log and looking for the backup files in /var/lib/zm and .sql files in each event directory.

Viper_iii · Post by **Viper_iii** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:12 am

bb99 wrote:RDMelin has turned out another masterpiece! 48 hours on ZMLinuxOS live cd and no issues at all! Installed easily on older socket A hardware, boot time is very fast, load is down to .5 on four cameras at 640 X 480, configuration is nearly identical with what I would normally use, and PCLinuxOS is my distro of choice. What more can I say? Other than Thankyou!

Running the 2008 ZMLinuxOS and having issues with 640x480...
What tweaks do I need to make? Also can't get a network camera to come up at any resolution. Both worked on 1.22.x Live CD At 640x480...

let me know... fast install, fast boot.... fast fast fast
System for me is a Dell 3ghz with 1gb ram only small 80gb hdd is all...

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:56 pm

having issues with 640x480...

See this entry in the wiki faq
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... esolutions.

I forgot to add these lines to /etc/sysctl.conf

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kernel.shmall = 134217728
kernel.shmmax = 134217728

If this doesn't resolve these issues you will need to provide more info. See this post
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10820