Andrew Close wrote:
On 10/19/05, Alex Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:34 pm, ffrr wrote:
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My current plan of attack is to wait for the Mandriva 2006 upgrade to
become public and try that, before going down the route of shelling out
money on a new card.
How about trying one of the "quickstart" distros like KnoppMyth or MythDora.
Personally, I moved away from the Mandrake based distros a while ago. Too
much overhead. If you're feeling up to the challenge, you can install Gentoo
and create a truly customized Myth install. It's what I run on my laptop.
HOURS of compiling fun ;-)
i second that. if you're going to start over you may want to give
another distro a try. KnoppMyth is a pretty quick and very painless
install. it has full support for all Myth's many wonderful features
OOtB (out of the box). if you have fairly recent hardware, 'it just
works'.
nuff said.
I have installed knoppmyth a little while back on another machine. I
totally agree that it's a good way to go, except I also want to use this
machine as a day to day home desktop. So, for a desktop machine, I like
KDE and it's support apps such as K3B, and I don't think knoppmyth has
that. There's also some other apps, like Open Office that I would want.
I suppose I could add the stuff I need, but by that time, I will be back
to the complexity level I am currently at.
It may become a backend only at some point, in which case I will put
Knoppmyth on a lesser powered machine as a frontend, but I will still
want to use the backend as a desktop as well.
Anyway, I see no guarantee it would work any better with my DVB card.
Just saying that though, maybe I can boot from a Knoppmyth CD just to
test it. Does the backend work in Knoppmyth when booted from CD, or do
I have to install it? I'd rather not install it because I've heard it
expects to install to a clean hda, whereas I have sata, and worse, would
want to put it into something like sda11 (a spare partition).
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