Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Gerald Dachs
Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100 schrieb Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de: On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote: ... + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2009/12/25 Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100 schrieb Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de: On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote: ... + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot)   system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100 Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote: + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk. Another idea: if there's a spare USB

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Carsten Koch
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100 Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote: + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was forced to

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run from there. Should be lightning fast. 2009/12/25 Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de: On

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote: What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run from

[vdr] Shutting a system down. (was: vdr shutdownskript - wrong time)

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Donnerstag, den 24.12.2009, 20:00 -0800 schrieb VDR User: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: At some point the shutdown mechanism apparently became rocket science and I decided to no longer touch it (especially since I don't even use it

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2009/12/25 VDR User user@gmail.com: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote: What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot by using network or memory

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:23:26 -0800 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com wrote: What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:58:18 +0100 Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote: Another idea: if there's a spare USB (2.0 High Speed) port you could use a memory stick instead of NFS. Good idea. I suppose this one

Re: [vdr] Shutting a system down. (was: vdr shutdownskript - wrong time)

2009-12-25 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 24.12.2009, 20:00 -0800 schrieb VDR User: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: At some point the shutdown mechanism apparently became rocket

Re: [vdr] Shutting a system down.

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Freitag, den 25.12.2009, 13:38 -0800 schrieb VDR User: […] However, in my case since VDR is my main tv/media source, it would be annoying to have to boot the computer every time someone wanted to watch/listen to something, therefore the box stays on 24/7. Thus, never having use for

Re: [vdr] Shutting a system down.

2009-12-25 Thread Lauri Tischler
Paul Menzel wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.12.2009, 13:38 -0800 schrieb VDR User: […] However, in my case since VDR is my main tv/media source, it would be annoying to have to boot the computer every time someone wanted to watch/listen to something, therefore the box stays on 24/7. Thus, never