Cecil Watson wrote:
My goal today is to rebuild a FE/BE combined unit (to be seperated shortly down the road) from the ashes of a FC2 box which died a tragic and horrible death 10 days ago. It was a Soyo Dragon (SY-K7V) 1600+ which performed admirably over it's four year lifespan.Observing a moment of silence.
Your sentiments are appreciated but it turns out the mobo lived. It was the CPU that gave up the ghost. Now all I have to do is add a Thoroughbred and I'll have the backend. But that can wait until I have a combined box running with both tuners. Less work for now I figure.
was looking at Knoppmyth last night. That is quite the warehouse of howto's and whatnot but somehow I get the feeling I'm really not going to learn more of linux's intricacies by going that route.KnoppMyth is designed to get a set-top box running in the quickest manner possible. This however doesn't mean one cannot learn from it. You can install it, remove the MythTV debs and compile CVS.
I was thinking the same thing just now and am burning a fresh Knopp to CD. In the end, I'm still gonna do this the "hard way".
I'm thinking more along the lines of LFS built up enough to bring in apt in order to get an easier start with CVS. I figure an initial Myth build on whatever is sitting in ATRPMs MythCVS and then pulling source in as needed. I know it won't be the easiest way to build a mythbox but I really, really need move on from linux newbie status and this seems like a way to do it.
MythTV needs an SQL (MySQL) server in the short run...
Naturally.
You really seem to be going about this in an odd manner. I can understand you desire to want to learn Linux. But it seems like you want a box to toy with as well. I really wouldn't recommend toying with your PVR once you have it setup.
In general, this is a good rule of thumb especially for production environments. But the machine has been dead for nearly a fortnight now. Before the cpu crapped out, it was a perfectly stable 0.16 machine, XFS over LVM, AC3 passthrough, HD modelines. I'm pretty handy at the odds and ends. It is the guts of linux I need to learn from the ground up. I understand that all I need is a cpu to turn it back into a perfectly working myth machine but the seal has been cracked and there is no stopping now - the parts are all here. And I also want to see how FC2 handles booting up to a very different motherboard.
PS: Do you really get the honeys?! ;)
When I make time which just got a little more scarce...
For the record, I'm a recovering windows admin who no longer even works in IT proper. The dark side pushed me over the edge so I traded in my pocket protector for a tool belt.
-- Meatwad
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