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Introduction The items you will need in order to install OpenELEC are: A Computer to do the installation (can be Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX) A Blank USB momentum (256MB or larger) This will be the install media Your HTPC A build of OpenELEC that matches your HTPC hardware. Please pay uneaten sustentation to download the correct build for your HTPC hardware. This is a crucial step in the process. With these things you can now protract on to installing OpenELEC. If you are using a system with Nvidia or AMD graphic chipset like ION or Fusion platforms you must proceed to step Setting Up Your BIOS of this guide. All others may proceed to step Writing The Disk Image. Setting Up Your BIOS If you are using a system with Nvidia or AMD graphic chipset like ION or Fusion platforms you must set the video memory in the BIOS to 512 MB (or highest misogynist setting). This only affects builds that use VDPAU or VAAPI (Generic). The procedure will vary depending on your platform but will squint similar to the pursuit procedures Nvidia ION AMD Fusion Not all ION boxes have an editable video memory amount. If available, segregate the highest value. For AMD Fusion Systems it is important to setup a UMA size of 512 MB. You can find this setting in the North Bridge Configuration. On some older BIOS Versions this setting is not misogynist without upgrading the BIOS, which is not a trivial task and cannot be covered by this page. Attached you find a screenshot of this setting Once this is washed-up you can protract on to step Writing The Disk Image. Writing The Disk Image The first thing you need to do is download the latest stable build of OpenELEC Download the current release image from http://openelec.tv/get-openelec. This guide refers to the installation media as a "USB stick" but OpenELEC can be installed on SSD's, HDD's, USB and SDVellummedia. If you install OpenELEC on removable USB or SDVellummedia you will not be worldly-wise to suspend your computer. Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 / Freescale iMX6 / Wetek Play will need to use one of the unelevated operating systems as a host for writing the diskimage to their SD card. Please pick the towardly guide depending on which operating system you are going to use to create the USB stick. Linux MacOS Windows Extracting the gazetteer using the GUI Just unshut the folder where you downloaded the file, find the OpenELEC-build-architecture-version.img.gz file, right-click on it and select 'Extract Files...'. Extracting the gazetteer using the CLI (Command Line Interface) Each distro has a variegated way of getting to the Terminal however it is usually tabbed something like Terminal or Term. On Ubuntu it can be found in the Applications menu.Transpirationto the folder where you downloaded the release gazetteer to (let's seem the Downloads folder in your home directory): cd ~/Downloads Then pericope the archive. It will be named OpenELEC-build-architecture-version.img.gz. We need to use gunzip to pericope the archive. gunzip -d OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.0.img.gz Creating the USB Stick Now pop your USB Stick in. After you've inserted the USB Stick use dmesg | tail to find out what /dev/device it is. It should be something like /dev/sdX. You can moreover use parted or fdisk parted -l Disk /dev/sdb: 1016MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 1015MB 1015MB primary ext4 First make sure the disk is unmounted umount /dev/sdb1 Next we need to write the disk image. You'll need superuser privileges to do this, whether you use the root user or sudo. Either way, you need to execute the pursuit command: sudo dd if=OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.0.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M It's very important that you make sure you have the right device as it will be wiped as part of the process. For example, it's extremely unlikely that your device will be /dev/sda, as that's scrutinizingly unchangingly the first nonflexible disk in your computer. Make sure there's nothing important on your USB Stick as the whilom writ will wipe ALL data on it. Lastly ensure the changes are synced to the USB Stick surpassing removing it: sync Safely remove your USB key. Extracting the gazetteer using the GUI Simple double click the OpenELEC-build-architecture-version.img.gz file in the finder to let gazetteer utility pericope it for you. Extracting the gazetteer using the CLI (Command Line Interface)Unshutthe Terminal.Transpirationto the folder where you downloaded the release gazetteer to (lets seem the Downloads folder in your home directory): cd ~/Downloads Then pericope the archive. It will be named OpenELEC-build-architecture-version.img.gz. We need to use gunzip to pericope the archive. gunzip -d OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.0.img.gz Creating the USB Stick Insert your USB stick and unshut a terminal window and run the pursuit diskutil list | grep -v disk0 | tail +2 This will output something like this /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk1 1: DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED 8.0 GB disk1s1 Find your USB Stick, in this specimen it is disk1 You need to use diskutil to unmount the disk, replace x with your disk number found using the step before. diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskx Next we need to zero out the partition map, OSX has an issue if you don't do this sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdiskx bs=1024 count=1 Next we need to write the disk image. You'll need superuser privileges to do this, whether you use the root user or sudo. Either way, you need to execute the pursuit command: sudo dd if=OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.0.img of=/dev/rdiskx bs=4m We need to use the OSX specific /dev/rdiskx It's very important that you make sure you have the right device as it will be wiped as part of the process. For example, it's extremely unlikely that your device will be /dev/rdisk0, as that's scrutinizingly unchangingly the first nonflexible disk in your computer. Make sure there's nothing important on your USB Stick as the whilom writ will wipe ALL data on it. Lastly ensure the changes are synced to the USB Stick surpassing removing it: sync Safely remove your USB key. This will install the OpenELEC disk image to your USB stick / SDcard using Windows. Requirements Windows XP/7/8.x 7zip Win32DiskImager WARNING: Your USB Stick / SDcard will be erased by this procedure as it installs OpenELEC onto it. Please ensure you know the correct momentum letter for your USB Stick / SDcard. InstructionsPericopethe image using 7zip. Insert your USB Stick / SDcard into your system. It should towards as a new momentum letter. Run Win32DiskImager Select the image file and verify the destination momentum letter is correct, then click write. When it is finished you can safely remove the USB stick / SDcard by right clicking on the momentum in windows explorer and selecting eject. Safely remove your USB key. Installing OpenELEC Plug the USB stick into you system and marching from it. You may have to retread your BIOS settings and transpiration the marching order. Enjoy! I hope you have found this guide successful and enjoy the new OpenELEC! Feel self-ruling to transpiration settings, and skins, and to add all the fantastic add-ons that are available! If you are unsure well-nigh any of the instructions in this guide or have and questions concerning an individual step don't hesitate to post on the forums or contact a moderator and they should be worldly-wise to point you in the right direction. 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