[mythtv-users] RE: Suggestions for Updates to Jarods Guide

Tue Jul 6 09:33:05 EDT 2004

> That ain't good...

Tell me about it... Thankfully they're still under warranty, so I can get them swapped out.

> Never, ever, reinstall!

I try not too.. but apt-get was complaining that it couldn't find some rpmlibs, and since it was a new install, and suspecting that I am going to be having some other issues, I thought I'd start fresh and end up with a clean system.

> Not your typical install (the Windows domain stuff),

Probably not.. then again, there are probably more than a few geeks running MSExchange etc at home... (sad, aren't I).

> There do seem to be quite a few folks with multi-card systems these days

It seems to be... I've got a couple of PVR250s and a WinTV in mine. It's not the easiest job getting them all set up - even tho I've been thru the setup several times.

> catching up at work post-office-move

Oh, I hear you.... We did a count up of all the projects we have to complete between now and the end of September.  We somehow need to find an extra 1500 man hours between now and then, and considering there are only really 2 of us that can do project work, it's going to be interesting....:)

> This applies pretty much equally to FC1

Thanks... I did a search on the RH site, and couldn't come up with anything. My myth box is eventually going back into the basement, and it would be nice to be able to automate the next (re)install of it (at least to the point of the OS being right, and having telnet enabled).

Thanks again for all the help and the good work on the guide.

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:jcw at wilsonet.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 9:57 PM
To: Graham W. Mitchell
Cc: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Updates to Jarods Guide

On Jul 5, 2004, at 17:50, Graham W. Mitchell wrote:

> Well, I've had another couple of WD200Gb disks fail

That ain't good...

> so it's back to Jarods guide and a reinstall...J

:-)

> Ø       rpm -Uvh  
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc1/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-20 
> -1.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm
>
> Now up to rpm -Uvh  
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc1/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-23 
> -1.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm
>
> You may want to add something to the effect that if you're behind a  
> non transparent web proxy you're going to have some issues..... I  
> recently installed smoothwall as my firewall, and turned on squid in  
> non transparent mode, and apt-get failed until I remembered.

Hm, didn't know that would fail. I run in transparent mode myself, no  
problems. I'll see about adding that.

> Ø      you may have to comment out apt.kde-redhat.org and  
> kde-redhat.atrpms.net in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> It may be worth moving this above the
>
> Ø       apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> section, so it's more obvious that it should be done before the  
> dist-upgrade.

Nope. That first apt-get update and dist-upgrade are with only the  
atrpms-kickstart installed, which means you don't have a fully  
populated sources.list yet. At that point in time, it only includes  
atrpms and core os stuff (from freshrpms). However, I do need to  
clarify that section, as many people don't make the connection between  
that and redhat-artwork failures later on.

> You should also add to do an apt-get install apt before editing the  
> line (remembering to rpm -e yum before doing that), as the  
> sources.list won't be updated until that point (and you obviously  
> can't comment out what's not there).

Ah, oops, started replying before reading the whole thing...

> And at this point, it's too late to do a reinstall of FC1, so I am  
> heading to bed.. *cough*

Never, ever, reinstall! (Unless you lose a drive). ;-)

> Next day...
>
> OK... One FC1 install later.. remembering to apt-get update, and edit  
> out the kde-redhat.org.. J
>
> It might be worth adding to section 3 Initial Software, that if you're  
> planning to use samba, to select the Windows Server as part of the  
> installation. Also, if you're planning to connect to a Windows domain,  
> to select the krb5-server utilities (you will also need to add the  
> krb5-workstation utilities manually later (I can't see a way to  
> install them at initial install time)).

Not your typical install (the Windows domain stuff), but I'll take that  
into consideration. Definitely a good call on the Windows Server stuff.

> Section 7.. The custom kernel is now updated of course..
>
> apt-get install kernel#2.4.22-1.2194.nptl_50.rhfc1.at  
> kernel-source#2.4.22-1.2194.nptl_50.rhfc1.at

Actually, 2197 now.

> Section 11..
>
> /bin/dmesg |grep ivtv
>
> You should add a note that if you have multiple cards, you will see  
> multiple sets of this

There do seem to be quite a few folks with multi-card systems these  
days...

> When you get to the section for doing the test_ioctls
>
>  /usr/bin/test_ioctl -u 0x3000
>
> Should become
>
> /usr/bin/test_ioctl --device /dev/video0 -u 0x3000

It defaults to /dev/video0, so you really only need that if you have a  
second card on video1, but point taken.

> And
>
> cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
>
> needs to be done for every minor number too

The theme here seems to be "more multi-card setup info"...

> Section 13
>
> mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.14/database/mc.sql
>
> needs to become
>
> mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.15.1/database/mc.sql

Haven't got that far yet. Still catching up at work post-office-move...  
I'm working on some updates tonight though...

> On a related, but somewhat off topic note, can someone point me  
> towards some docs for FC1 on how to set it up automatically with no  
> user intervention using a PXE boot?

This applies pretty much equally to FC1 (its what I used, with some of  
my own customizations):

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin- 
guide/ch-diskless.html

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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