On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:53:50AM -0600, T. Waldren wrote: > After seeing my mythbox in action, a friend wants to create their own. > Being more monitarily endowed then me, he is going to plop down some > cash on a fast backend, and some parts to make 2 frontends. He is > asking for my help, since I am the only person that he knows who has a > mythbox, and the only other person I know lives near chicago (not near > me), and I of course and still a newbie at all this stuff, so I am > going to need help. > > Continuing my trend of asking users group, instead of 'seaching via > google' is there a good document explaining the tricks, etc for > building a myth system with a seperate backend and frontend?
Please consider reading the documentation available at www.mythtv.org and possibly http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php > A couple more questions. Should we wait until all the issues that > seem to be coming up with .17 on this list are gone (say a couple of > weeks) or is it fairly stable and these are just oddities? That's a decision only you can make. > >From people's experience, does a standard ethernet network (10/100 > mbps network) offer enough thoughput to run two playback only > frontends connecting to one recording only backend, without any > problems? Yes. > And the last one (I can think of at this time). How do you setup > multiple drives are the place for mythtv to store files, or can this > even be done? For instance, if I have two 80 gig drives, can I make > that into one 160 gig space for mythtv to store recordings? http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.3 Please reconsider simply asking questions instead of searching. The available documentation is excellent and there almost no questions that haven't been asked and answered over and over again on the mailing list. There is a searchable mail archive of this list here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ Aran
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