[mythtv-users] Proof of Concept a success!

F Peeters (MythTV) francesco at fampeeters.com
Mon Apr 16 13:39:12 UTC 2007


On Mon, April 16, 2007 15:10, David Frascone wrote:

> And a couple of diskless frontend questions:
>
> 1) Geforce4 card
>    a) I'm using the VGA input to my TV -- is that my best choice?
>    b) My TV has a resolution of 1366x768, but currently I'm set at
> 1024x768 -- should I just find a compatible modeline?
> 2) NFS -vs- initramfs -vs- whatever . . . PXE Boot?  I'd rather save my
> DVD to just play movies, and boot off of the network -- any HOWTO's?
>

Best is to first build your FE on a local drive, and once you are
satisfied, boot from a live CD and DD the entire drive to an NFS share and
follow the diskless ubuntu howto on the wiki:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto>

Good luck!

(PS: Don't be cheap on harddisk space... Large drives are cheap nowadays,
and you'll need lots of it once you really start using MythTV!)
-- 
F Peeters
  PC-Chips M863G Geode - NVidia 440 - Hauppauge PVR250
  Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) - XFCE - MythTV 0.20 - Xine
  Panasonic NV-VHD1 VCR/DVD player case modded to fit it all in...


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