[mythtv-users] Myth in 20 hours!

[Jeff Blair]

Well, if I could get MythTV to compile on my Opteron system, I could get
it from a blank HD to a working system in about 4 hours.  It takes me
about 3 hours to get it up and booting.  I love that thing.  :)

Jeff

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 23:23, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2004, at 20:07, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > I already did it in ~8 hours compiling _everything_ from source using 
> > gentoo, but I was only reformatting my current setup (no messing 
> > around to find what to configure and how, all the config files were 
> > backed up).
> 
> An entire bare-metal Gentoo install from stage1 to working in only 8 
> hours on a Celery?!?... I'd swear I put in at least 30 hours of 
> compiling over the course of a week here on a dual PIII-733 system to 
> get everything up and running, but that did included full emerges of 
> gnom, kde and xfce4...
> 
> > The thing was only a Celeron 1100A (rebranded P3, has the same amount 
> > of cache - so not fast, but not slow either). I'm still surprised 
> > everything was compiled and running so quick!
> 
> Oh, and if we're going to compare bare-metal to fully working and fully 
> up to date MythTV system times, I can certainly beat 8 hours. My best 
> is sub-2.5 hours. (On Red Hat, all binary rpms -- I could shave another 
> .5 to 1 hour off if I didn't worry about getting completely up to date 
> with all my packages ;-).
> 
> Jon wrote:
> > Just thought I'd drop a note in here to let you know my experience 
> > with setting up MythTV for the first time…
> > [snip]
> > So here I am at 7:20am, having spent the best part of 20 hours solid 
> > on this thing and it rocks! Next bits to sort out will be the TV-out 
> > from the PVR-350 (I'm saving that one for when I'm awake a bit more), 
> > possibly add in another capture card I've got kicking around (WinTV 
> > 2000XP Deluxe) and to build an IR sender or figure out the serial port 
> > to change channels on the satellite box once I move it from my desk to 
> > the living room - WAF allowing.
> 
> If you have the serial option, its definitely MUCH easier. I got a 
> serial connection to my cable box up and running in all of about 15 
> minutes on the first try this past weekend.
> 
> > So *many* thanks to Jarod for the hard work he's put into the install 
> > guide, certainly paid off for me, although I did have fun trying to 
> > figure out the differences for a PAL B/G tuner / installation and New 
> > Zealand TV channels, but would have taken me MUCH longer without the 
> > guide.
> 
> =]