[mythtv-users] DRAFT of proposed new FAQ (or HowTo section)

[Keat Lim]

Going through the HOWTO for two distributions (RH9 and Mandrake9.1) in
under a week has been a ride. The information in there are all good but
highly disorganized (and nobody is to blame). 

One thing I would love to see is a seperate installation guide for each
distribution then seperate them by the version. I was reading and
re-reading each section to make sure I did not miss and sometimes can get
a little bit confusing when there's instructions for Mandrake 9.0 and do I
follow them when I'm 9.1....?

For the rest of the problems I had were mostly just problems that were
outside of MythTV and how open source also means you're never guranteed to
get things to work with the hardware you have... What would be nice is if
there was a set of hardware like a Mini-ITX w/ PVR-250 and all you'll need
is a hdd and then the setup is to just download a MythTV ISO and you're
all set!


On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Robert Kulagowski wrote:

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> > Isaac, Robert -- how would you like me to submit this for inclusion
> >  somewhere? (I'm still not sure if this would be better as 
> > part of the HowTo or as a separate FAQ. I would probably find it
> > easier to  maintain as a FAQ entry.)
> 
> I believe that this is an Isaac question and how he feels about
> multiple documentation efforts.  The existing HOWTO grew out of the
> same desire that you have now; to make it easier to install MythTV,
> with my efforts starting in the 0.7 era.  Because of that, it has
> grown to try to encompass different distributions, since really,
> there aren't _that_ many ways of compiling MythTV from scratch.  I've
> tried to be aware of the issues that people raise in the mailing
> lists and incorporate those issues and changes into the document.
> 
> The existing FAQ in CVS has been pulled into the HOWTO and replaced
> with a pointer to the HOWTO docs.  The website FAQ still mirrors what
> used to be in the FAQ text; I don't know when/if Isaac is going to
> replace it or get rid of it.
> 
> It really doesn't matter to me one way or the other if it's
> incorporated into the main HOWTO or not; there are many sections
> where I really didn't do much more than reformat / edit the text with
> the original submission being 95% intact when it got incorporated.
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