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Chad wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 4/10/06, Troy Goodson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Troy_Goodson@yahoo.com"><Troy_Goodson@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm starting the journey of installing Gentoo 2006.0 on my stock
Beige G3. I'm writing my notes at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_Beige_G3_PPC"><http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_Beige_G3_PPC></a>
I'm not a novice user, but I've never actually installed a linux
distro before. Nor have I installed MythTV before.
I'm interested in any comments or tips from the list. Also, feel free
to write comments or tips at <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_Beige_G3_PPC"><http://gentoo-wiki.com/
HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_Beige_G3_PPC></a>
A few snippets:
I really want a MythTV box, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mythtv.org/">http://www.mythtv.org/</a>, but I want to use
the hardware I have. I have a Rev. 3 Beige G3 with the stock
hardware. I hope that I'll be able to use a pchdtv card <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html"><http://
www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html></a> in it.
The Plan
1. read the Gentoo installation instructions for PPC - <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml"><http://
www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml></a>
2. boot from Gentoo's Minimal Installation CD - I've done this!! :)
3. read more of the Gentoo installation instructions
4. refine my plan?
5. install from Gentoo's Universal Installation CD
6. install MythTV
7. does it look like this will work?
8. start over
Booting from Gentoo's Minimal Installation CD
... got this to work!
I've made partitions and next time I'm going to "create filesystems"
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Good Luck! It might just be my pessimism stepping in, but I don't
know that you'd really have enough horsepower to do much with that
system. Although you did seem to realize that and maybe you just want
it as a cheap machine that holds your hardware mpeg cards and HDTV
cards and just streams them to a drive that your myth boxes all
access, in which case, it might work, and then the opener applies;
Good Luck! ;) (Says the pessimist in me with a beige G3 sitting 3
feet from my knees, untouched for about a good 2 years.)
Chad
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Let me know how it goes too - I have a couple of blue&whites that
are being paperweights right now.<br>
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W<br>
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