mythtv minimyth working
Wow. I decided to refresh my MythTV installation, and went all out. My new mythtv backend/frontend server is running on Fedora Core4 with an xfs filesystem on an LVM partition (so it can be expanded with new hard drives easily). That server was easy to redo, there were only a few minor things I wanted to change about the setup: the xfs filesystem being the main change….
The cool part, however, is my new diskless (diskless by necessity, not by choice, now) mini-itx system that sits under the bed, hooked up to a projector, and plugged into an auto-switching amp (between the whole house audio and the local source) to some nice in-wall speakers. The mini-itx system uses the MiniMyth project. Despite the frontpage’s lack of updates, inside the forums there’s an active community.
The really neat part is that this diskless myth frontend is that it is just so slick. I had to convert my main mythtv-server (the frontend/backend) to be the DHCP router (configuring DHCP to give back out my IP addresses), install TFTP, and PXE server packages, and configure the pre-built epia kernel and rootfs crammed into a little 50 MB image that boots up really daggone quick, and quite frankly, looks amazing!
I’m going to post some pictures and all my setup notes soon here. Maybe, just maybe, I might volunteer with all that extra spare time I’ve got to update the linpvr.org page — I’d love to keep up that minimyth distro — it is phenomenal!
December 20th, 2005 18:39
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