I never intended this thread to be a discussion of the merits of Linux vs. windows. I just wanted a bit a technical advice from the community before trying another os. I apologize for putting the word "windows" in the subject.
<br><br>92% of my computer usage is Linux, but I'm not really biased when it comes to solving a problem. Sometimes you just need a dry roof over your head and it does't matter what kind of hammer you use to build it.<br>
<br>I have a simple goal. Allow my wife to record HDTV as easily as she can now with our hacked TiVo. Once this is done I get to justify the purchase of a 56" 1080p HDTV. :) If I have to go the windows route to get this done, I will.
<br><br>I really appreciate the technical feedback and I've gotten a few good ideas to try out. <br><br>cheers,<br><br>-sixarm<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Teague</b>
<<a href="mailto:kteague@speakeasy.net">kteague@speakeasy.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">James C. Dastrup wrote:
<br><br>>Just an off-topic tip:<br>><br>>My biannual Windows reinstall takes 5 minutes. Image a working<br>>system up to your network, then image it down when you need to<br>>rebuild. And if you use sysprep, then even any hardware changes
<br>>don't affect the image process. Or, put a sysprep'ed image on<br>>a DVD and just image it to any computer - you never need to<br>>see the installation again.<br>><br>><br>I think the point, here, is that, at some point in time, you do have to
<br>go through the 45 minute flawed installation of Windows before you can<br>get to get to a point of imaging. Lets throw sysprep in the mix and<br>you've possibly added a mini-setup to your post-image dump. Tag on the
<br>-pnp argument to sysprep so you can detect any new hardware you may have<br>thrown in your box since its last image and you've tacked on another<br>5-10 minutes to the mini-setup.<br><br>Also, a *base* Windows setup (including a copy of i386 in the root of
<br>C:) is roughly 1.5GB of data. What do you get in that 1.5GB? Lets see,<br>Notepad (such a powerful text editor), Calculator, Character Map,<br>WordPad (even more powerful than Notepad!), Pinball, Freecell,<br>MediaPlayer, Internet Explorer, etc... but how much is actually useful,
<br>and how much productivity can be found? Hardly any of it. I can<br>install Debian in 20 minutes and have a fully functional X Window System<br>and tons of utilities and productivity tools. We can leave out C:\i386<br>
and take away about 500MB from that 1.5GB, and that still leaves us with<br>1GB of stuff that's mostly CRAP! To get up to speed after a post-image<br>dump, you'll need to reinstall your apps which takes most of the time<br>
when rebuiling a box. So, tell us... how long does it take you to get<br>back to where you were after you dump the image in 5 minutes?<br><br>- Ken<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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