[HOW-TO] Installing XBIAN directly on RASPBIAN IMG

[IriDium]

Used 2014-01-07 release

1) Needed mkdir tmp
2) No problems
3) No problems
4) Resizing certainly took a while on an 8G SD card.
After reboot showed INIT Id “T0” respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes. This kept on going. <Enter> stopped this. Went to login.
dmesg showed swapon: swapfile has holes
5) What happened to 5) ?
6) WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
sysvinit
0 upgraded, 84 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 60.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 151 MB of additional disk space will be used.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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Yes, do as I say!

a) After install. Xbian password not accepted. Logged in as pi. su –i xbian. Passwd
This seemed to have the effect of disabling default login – you now have to put in a password when swapping from lxde to Xbmc. Doh

b) Changed overclocking to Xbian standard. Added gpu_mem_512=256
c) Restored backup. (didn’t seem to work) Went from gz to working but nothing seems to have changed
Worked the second time around.
d) rebooted.

All looks good!!