[mythtv-users] Bootable mythfrontend?

Cecil Watson cwatson at linkline.com
Thu Jul 14 07:52:57 EDT 2005


Nick Rout wrote:
> Does anyone know of a distro that boots off a CD and runs mythfrontend?
> I have a few windows boxes around the house that the family refuses to
> change to a decent OS, and WinMYTH seems to be a dog.
> 
Yes.
> But if I could boot off a CD and run the frontend entirely off the CD,
> it would be ultra cool. Something along the lines of knoppix, although
> it could be a lot smaller of course.
> 
KnoppMyth at mysettopbox.tv.
> If no such thing is presently available, would others be in favour of
> doing this? gentoo is great for making bootable CD's, and there are also
> many howtos about the show on re-mastering knoppix.
> 
Google is your friend.
> Can anyone think of any pitfalls? One is that some info (backend
> address, database password etc) would need to be stored somewhere other
> than on the CD.
> 
Works great!

Regards,

Cecil


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