If I take the time to write 18 pages of documentation (readme.txt) then you should take the time to READ it.

After installing you should go in the menu to install options and choose enable CF card for multiboot.

Until you do this the other commands CANN'T work.

And just to prevent questions like what command do I enter next:

User latest kit 4.11 with nfi support to have an easier life !

The description below will not work with earlier MB kits:

After the enable you copy the Images that you want to move via FTP to /MB_Images, maybe rename them with the FTP programm to short names like d.nfi g.nfi, v.nfi,...

Then you choose im MB menu copy with N as source, the partition 1,2,3 where you want the image to go as target and d,g,v... as sourcename. Then MB will copy the Image to the specified partition.

Do this for all 3 partitions and then choose boot in the menu with 1 or 2 or 3.

Then you choose reboot in restart options and you should boot the wanted image - have fun with multiboot !

PS: If you have rebootet in the meantime the kit at /var/tmp is gone, so copy again and unpack as the last time, and THEN do the enable.

reagards
thowi

PPS: You should ask this question in another board where you have dreams, which is the 'home' of multiboot and there you can get also the latest MB kit. It has nothing to do here in the OE developers section.

you are welcome, and I hope you now got the glue - no enable, no multiboot.

Installed means just that the files were loaded on the dreambox, not that it is prepared for multiboot !

MAYBE I'll include in the next Release on the first screen next to the install option (guess what they do - yes, enable and disable) a remark in brackets (enable 1x before usage) like I did it for the cronmanager plugin, to prevent people loading so many versions without finding out how it works !

ciao
thowi

You can always get back the multiboot menu in a (newly flashed) Image when you do this (standas also in readme.txt - fsecond page !)
in a telnet session:

cd /media/cf
multiboot.sh plugin

This will restart enigma and then Multiboot menu entry should be back
at the games/plugin menu !

The actual plugin resides after the enable on the CF card, the images just has a link to this (so that you use the same multiboot from any image), and the above command re-creates this link

Have fun multibooting & start reading the readme.txt !

ciao
thowi

PS: AGAIN, you should not report multiboot problems here in the DM board, there is a full multiboot thread in another board answering more or less any possible (dumb) question you might have (well it is partly in German, but important stuff is always translated)

Multiboot MB_*tar.bz2 images are created by yourself if you copy one of your images to the /MB_Images location.

You cann't simply rename a *.nfi image they are onyl for flashing and I decided for the moment not to support to create nfi images, only tar.bz2 images which can be just packed and unpacked with multiboot.

so you can make a copy X 3 xyz

This will copy your third MB Imagepartition to an MB Image File named MB_xyz.tar.bz2 tar.bzw at the /MB_Images directory

You can unpackt this image for exampel at partition 2 with

copy 2 X xyz

You can directly copy an nfi image to parition 1 for example with:

copy 2 N nfinamewithoutnfi

copy X 2 xyz mynfiname will NOT work intentionally !

The nfi image has to be move with FTP to /MB_Images for above, Version 5.0 of Multibioot contains a simple image download feature where you can get CSV Images from boxman, SadButTrue or Dreamville
directly to the Dreambox without using PC for download and FTP.

All this is documented in the readme.txt more then extensively.

Have fun
thowi

No, it is still in teststadium.

OoZooN is hosting the Imagelistfile
at www.oozoon.de which is hardcoded, so if your box is
connected to internet for ipkg updates, downloading plugins,...
then it should be also able to use this new feature.

There is a config file where you could switch to another Multiboot Image Downloadcenter, but because we just stated testing if this would be a usefull feature this is the only one available for the moment.

Simply choose image download and download one (or in mutliple steps all) of the images to your harddisk for direct copying with multiboot to MB Partitions - or even to flash if not bootet from flash).

With download Updated image List you could get an up-to date list,
which for example contains also the latest boxman.

That's all you can test on this feature at the moment.

Bye
thowi