Setting up MythTV
mitch @ 1:49 pm on September 24, 2004
A friend from work asked me to help him out with setting up his computer with MythTV on it. He bought an Via-ITX board and a 250GB hard drive, and I’ve been looking it a bit, and with Myth, speed is of the essence. So instead of trying to mess with KnoppMyth (which at the time seemed really good because it setup everything for you) however, with his PVR card he would have to recompile the kernel to get the ivytv driver. And if i’m going to be recompiling the kernel, and possibly other things… might as well make the optimizations for his VIA proc as well right? Anyway, all this and I’m came to the conclusion that Gentoo would probably much easier to maintain once it was setup, because of all this custom compiling I’d more than likely be doing anyway. So, thats what I’m doing. Started the Gentoo install last night, and I’ve created a 230GB partion for all his movie data. Formated it with JFS as it has the fastest delete times out of all the standard linux filesystems. And seems to be deamed “production ready” (not that I care that much… as Rieser has been production ready for a long time and just recently was given credit as such…) Anyway, I was thinking of starting with a stage 1 install of gentoo, however… had some problems, went with stage2, and I’m now stuck because automake depends on perl, and perl depends on automake…. So i’m not sure what I’m going to do… I might just go with a stage three and then recompile everything with my optimizations later… we’ll see. I’ll let you know how it goes… and hopefully once its up and running I can convice my wife that it would be nice to make one for ourselves after she sees this one in action. 
Gentoo· MythTV· Open Source —
