[myth-ie] ditching Mythbuntu, trying MythDora 4

[Glen Gray]

On my workstation here, I've an rsync cron job that kicks off every 30  
mins to keep my /home dir sync'd with a nice beefy server. We all do  
that in the office as the machines we where given suck and our  
empolyer is cheap ;).

--
Glen Gray
slaine at slaine.org




On 18 Mar 2008, at 10:57, Justin Mason wrote:

>
> 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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