[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 5/6/2005 7:24 PM David Brieck Jr. wrote:

>
>
> On 5/6/05, *Drew Tomlinson* <drew at mykitchentable.net 
> <mailto:drew at mykitchentable.net>> 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 picked up my IDE drive attached
>     to my
>     Promise 150 PATA connector.  I can see it via fdisk /dev/sda1.
>
>     I also have two SCSI drives connected to an Advansys controller
>     but they
>     are nowhere to be found.  I know I was required to load a driver when
>     installing Fedora Core 3.  I suspect I have to do something
>     similar here
>     but have no clue where to begin.  Google hasn't turned up anything
>     so I
>     made a plea to the gentoo-users list.  I'm anxiously awaiting
>     someone to
>     take pity on me.  :)
>
>
> I take it you are trying to install your system to one of the SCSI 
> drives?  If you're not, just go ahead and install everything to the 
> IDE drive and when you get to the part of compiling your kernel just 
> make sure you build in the driver. It looks like that particular 
> driver isn't loaded by default.
>
> You'll have to change the code maturity option so that you'll be able 
> to find the driver in the SCSI low level menu of your kenerl 
> configure. The fact that it's a new driver is probably why it's not 
> loading for you by default.
>
> Your best bet is to install to your IDE drive, and if you'd like your 
> SCSI drive to be your boot drive just build the correct kernel drvier 
> and move your data over once your system is running. Don't forget to 
> change your fstab though before rebooting on the SCSI drive.


I found instructions for booting from Knoppix and installing that way.  
Ironically, Knoppix sees the Advansys controller but not the PATA 
connector on the Promise card.  But no matter because I want to use the 
IDE drive only as storage for recorded shows.  Thus I'm sure it will 
either "just work" once I get Gentoo built or I will be able to make it 
work.

Thanks for all your help and suggestions!

Drew

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