[mythtv-users] How big CF card for frontend?

[Colin McGregor]

On 2/15/09, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
>> On 2/15/09, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How large would a CF card need to be to hold a mythbuntu front end? I
>>> am hoping 4G but can't find a figure anywhere.
>>>
>>
>> Just over a month ago I put the Mythbuntu front end on to a USB memory
>> key. It was quite happy on a 1 GB key. I don't recall if it would fit
>> on a 512 MB key (probably, but I was just testing things, and the 1 GB
>> memory key was what I had handy). Bottom line, a 4 GB CF card would be
>> SERIOUS over kill.
>>
> I built a qt3 embedded system in 16 MB of flash.  I don't know how big
> the frontend is, but I'd bet you could build the whole thing in 32 MB of
> flash.

You may well be right.

However, Mythbuntu does have a utility for building a bootable USB
memory key image. If you use that utility, you will have a much bigger
than 32 MB image :-( . Obviously there will be stuff (likely a LOT of
stuff) that could be stripped out by hand. On the other hand, with 1
GB memory keys going for under $10, well, doing a lot of hand tweaking
isn't worth it in my books... Your mileage might however vary...

Colin McGregor

> --Yan
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