[myth-ie] ditching Mythbuntu, trying MythDora 4

[Justin Mason]

Brendan, have you considered forgetting about RAID entirely and just doing
a nightly "dd" from one drive to the other, as a low-tech backup
mechanism? ;)

--j.

Glen Gray writes:
> Ah the joys of juggling a family and technology fetish.
> 
> I'm in a similar boat. My mini-itx setup has been playing up since  
> late January and I can't seem to get the time to have a good run at  
> diagnosing the problem. I could well need new hardware, but I can't  
> make that call until I've tried a few things (box hard hangs after a  
> short period of time).
> 
> I originally hay Mythdora on there, was going to try Mythbuntu this  
> time around.
> --
> Glen Gray
> slaine at slaine.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 15 Mar 2008, at 21:57, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> 
> > After happening upon the blog at
> >
> > http://www.ninjax.net/blog/?p=11
> >
> > I'm going to give MythDora a try, in hope it'll result in something a
> > bit more happy than what I've experienced with Mythbuntu 7.10.  My
> > motivation is in part driven by the comments at
> >
> >   http://www.ubuntu-forums.net/showthread.php?t=615070&page=2
> >
> >   ...
> >   When gutsy was released, no one had yet tested the pvr 350 output.
> >   There are two issues that were then discovered. The first is that
> >   you need to install the xorg driver. That package is available on
> >   the ppa. The next issues is that the pvr 350 api changed within
> >   mythtv. You need to install the package on gutsy proposed to get
> >   around this issue. Eventually this package will be copied over to
> >   gutsy updates. If you are not getting it to work after using the
> >   package on gutsy proposed, and installing the x driver from the ppa,
> >   then you are configuring it incorrectly.
> >
> > I've killed myself making sure I've configured the living crap out of
> > it, so I think there's actually a problem between the ivtv driver and
> > the Xorg version using it.
> >
> > The MythDora installer recognized and used correctly the three RAID
> > arrays (/, swap, and /video) I created before, so that certainly bodes
> > well.  And it took very little time to get it to the point where it's
> > now happily formatting those three array filesystems and going ahead
> > with the install.  It'll be a little tedious popping in the second CD,
> > but that will still be faster than the bucketload of downloads  
> > Mythbuntu
> > needed.
> >
> > I've got it going now and will probably collapse soon and finish
> > tomorrow sometime, depending on whether my 6 year-old is able to play
> > with his friends on the road or not.  :-)
> >
> > I was this  -> . <-   close to popping out the new disks and  
> > sticking in
> > the old one in a gesture of Fuck It All.  But then I realized I'd just
> > have to go through all my preparation efforts (dumping the mysql
> > database contents, syncing up various files, etc).  And my wife's  
> > making
> > a big deal of how we're forced to be Common(tm) and actually flip  
> > around
> > to find something to watch.  hehehe.
> >
> > Our youngest was awake at 3am last night and he and I came down for  
> > the
> > first time to watch TV that wasn't already recorded and waiting for  
> > us.
> > He went to bed at 4am after watching Star Trek: The Next Generation  
> > and
> > some BBC News 24 crap.  New experiences. :-)
> >
> > B
> >
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