On 4/27/05, Greg Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Reading up on it, d 24 hour compile to get MythTV installed didn't > appeal to me though (especially since people reported problems getting > it to go,) and a 30 minute install with Xebian (from inserting the > install disc to mythfrontend) is tough to beat.
You have me confinced. I just converted my wife's 3GHz FC2 box to Gentoo. It's serving as the backend machine. Even that conversion took a day or two before it was completely done. Compiling Gentoo on the XBox is probably too much trouble for no real gain. I have no compelling reason to believe that performance or choice matters much in this application. > > I created a 1.5Gb rootfs on the gamesave partition which was easy to > back up for when my 2 year old decides to turn off the xbox and the > filesystem gets screwed up. (Only happened once so far ;) Note that > this means that I didn't have to upgrade the hard drive or anything, and > the XBox is fully functional as an XBox still. This issue has come up a couple of times so I need to ask about it. What's so bad about the power getting pulled on an XBox frontend machine? If that causes me to have to do a reinstall of anything then it's a big deal. I'm building a system to deploy in Southern California. I live in Northern California. I ain't willing to drive down every time there's a power glitch and do 30 minute reinstalls. We're looking at 1-3 backend machines and maybe 5 front end boxes. It needs to be very robust and reliable. If it isn't I'd go some othe direction. That's why I like Linux. Is there some specific issue about an XBox that makes it far worse than a standard PC? > > If you want the full details of what I did, they're available at: > http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6 > > Thanks! Interesting read. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
