Portable Snakeoil :-) First test.

[patricia1066]

For some time I have thought to have a portable Snakeoil on a USB stick for testing and to demo to others....
With the move to the latest installer this seemed possible so here is what worked for a first test...

To simplify the install I used the full Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop image and mkusb to achieve persistence of the underlying O/S and the Snakeoil install.

https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-lin...buntu-usb/

After following the mkusb I had a live persistent Ubuntu USB stick.
Booted to that and followed the wiki to install Gear Isolation.
Needed to first add the universe repo for ubuntu and install icewm otherwise the Snakeoil script failed with 'unable to find icewm' error.
 

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install icewm

 
Also installed the open-ssh server as per the wiki (and checked for alsa-utils but those were up to date)
Forgot to remove pulseaudio but on first run of Snakeoil it prompted and allowed removal..

The Snakeoil install script ran as expected but threw an error at the final step and reported that there was a boot install fail...however this seems not to be a problem at all as when I rebooted the laptop it started Ubuntu and when I used another PC to find the ip and access that from the remote Firefox.
Snakeoil web-page came up !!

I was able to configure Snakeoil for Library, Player, Activation, etc and start myMPD. 
Updated the myMPD database and played some tracks via the laptops internal audio
Then installed the latest firmware in the usual way... all good so far.

Then the big test...shutdown and moved the USB stick to another laptop..different specs and brand.
Selected boot from USB option in the laptop's menu and........   it worked ! 
Again I was able to access Snakeoil from the ip address and the settings and myMPD database were as had been set and saved.
Only change was for the audio device for the new laptop.

Next experiment is to try with just the Ubuntu server base and UEFI boot so I can use the resulting USB stick to boot the Thin-client that houses my RME-AIO card...    will report.

Great development Bromf. What size USB drive did you use? Would this work for LMS in principle?