Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/6/2005 7:24 PM David Brieck Jr. wrote: On 5/6/05, *Drew Tomlinson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, actually it's been harder than that. To sum it up, right now I'm sitting at work, looking at the livecd# prompt via an ssh connection. The livecd

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/5/2005 12:56 PM David Brieck Jr. wrote: By tomorrow you probably mean over the course of the next week or so. Gentoo takes a long time to install, mainly because you have to do a lot of it by hand. The best way is to have a spare PC around that you can use for browsing the net and

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-06 Thread David Brieck Jr.
On 5/6/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, actually it's been harder than that.To sum it up, right now I'msitting at work, looking at the livecd# prompt via an ssh connection.The livecd boot seems to have only picked up my IDE drive attached to my Promise 150 PATA connector.I can see

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-06 Thread Paul Harvey
On 5/6/05, David Brieck Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, actually it's been harder than that. To sum it up, right now I'm sitting at work, looking at the livecd# prompt via an ssh connection. The livecd boot seems to have only

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Nick
On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I gave up. Since MythTV was

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/5/2005 8:11 AM Nick wrote: On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Simpson
Well as they say, the third time is the charm!. I went to the gentoo.org web site and like what I see. I have been completely frustrated with Fedora and the packages getting in my way. I've missed the simple 'portinstall port' and have the system build from source, optimized for my

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-05 Thread David Brieck Jr.
By tomorrow you probably mean over the course of the next week or so. Gentoo takes a long time to install, mainly because you have to do a lot of it by hand. The best way is to have a spare PC around that you can use for browsing the net and searching/posting gentoo forums for help as you

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/3/2005 11:13 PM Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..snip.. At some point, you just have to ask yourself, why is everything so hard for me, but easier for everyone else? I see lots of people who have success with KnoppMyth (myself included) and lots who

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/3/2005 5:15 PM Howard Cokl wrote: --- Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 5/3/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. [ snip ] Googling suggested that to get this support, I needed to patch the sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel. Lot's of googling later and I've built and installed a custom kernel. Seems

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Howard Cokl
snip nvidia and ivtv are very easy, nvidia just download the version you want (probably 7174) so wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run and then as root sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run It'll do everything for you, build and

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/4/2005 11:08 AM Jeff Simpson wrote: On 5/3/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. [ snip ] Googling suggested that to get this support, I needed to patch the sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel. Lot's of googling later and I've built

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread David Brieck Jr.
On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip! Your the second that has recommended Gentoo. I may go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to. I just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat and RedHat is the only allowed distro

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/4/2005 6:38 PM David Brieck Jr. wrote: On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip! Your the second that has recommended Gentoo. I may go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to. I just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat

[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I gave up. Since MythTV was written for Linux I thought I might have an easier

Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-03 Thread Howard Cokl
--- Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 years but I have no experience with Linux. So my first attempt was to build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I gave up. Since MythTV was