I'm going to have to agree here. I'm a long time Linux user. It's been my main desktop since '95. And that was my problem. I thought I could just skim through the instructions and go because I knew what I was doing. WRONG. Two installation failures and I tucked my ego in my back packet. I then took it slow and read and followed the FC3 instructions very carefully. I now have a FC3 MythTV box that runs great.
Currently MythTV is a tough install. The instructions are good, but you have to read them and follow them. Ken On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:09:12 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Darryl Wisneski - ski wrote: > > > If you don't follow the instructions meticulously there are bound to > > be "anomolies," (to put it scientifically) regardless of distro, in > > your system. I wonder if you tried again from scratch with the same > > distro, if you would have gotten it to work? I think there is a high > > probability of success. > > right. I found that any problems that came up during the whole > installation were due to me not following the directions explicitly. > take the time to read each part through and don't skip ANYTHING, there > is a reason its in the instructions! > > as far as different distributions and different hardware, that problem > isn't going to go away anytime soon. too many different hardware > configurations and cosmic rays and gremlins. You cant get FC3 to work? > I cant get FC2 to work, etc etc. Even if we all had the exact same > hardware and the exact same OS, I imagine there'd still be installation > anomalies (however probably less so...see Mac os X and Solaris). But > that aint the world we live in... > > I have absolutely everything running on my FC3 myth box. web, email, > tv, web dev (tomcat / apache / mysql). I'd even run a quake server on > it if it was just a bit more beefy. Granted I have a little more > experience than the average user, but I don't feel like I needed to > rely on this in order to get the whole system running using the > wilsonet instructions. Just follow them, success can be yours. > > as an aside I just sold my tivo. good riddance. and I've got about a > dozen people wanting me to help them build a myth box at some point, > after I've showed them what it can do and how great it is. > > anyway keep plugging away at it, take your time and have fun! > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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