On 2009-06-12, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm about to have a go at replacing my dedicated Knoppmyth >>> FE/BE box with a backend on my "general purpose" Gentoo >>> desktop and a dedicated diskless frontend on an Intel Mac >>> Mini. >>> >>> Towards that end I'm looking at the "Official Gentoo MythTV >>> Install Guide" at >>> >>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/ >>> >>> I don't see anywhere in the process that mythtv is actually >>> installed.
> That doc was last updated in 2005. It's woefully out of date. You're right -- I hadn't noticed the last modified date. Unfortunately, the Gentoo wiki page on MythTv has a pointer to that page right at the top. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/MythTV > Use the Gentoo specific info on the www.MythTV.org site and > you'll do fine. At the risk of seeming a bit dim... what Gentoo specific info? The page at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Linux_Distros#Gentoo has 4 links to Gentoo setup guides. Three of them don't exist, and the fourth is the previously mentioned "official" install guide that hasn't been updated in 4 years and doesn't actually show mythtv being installed. > If you need help or jsut want to ask questions about flags or > operation write back. It's just that I would have sworn I'd seen a pretty complete Gentoo MythTv HOWTO at some point, but I sure can't find it now. [I was primarily interested in hints for doing a "backend-only" install.] Anyway, I was surprised there didn't seem to be a HOWTO. I've done some fairly obscure stuff on Gentoo, and I think this is the first time I've wanted to do something and haven't found a detail HOWTO document. -- Grant