Paul,<br>If you were building a backend only box you must have a frontend box to go with it. You should have ssh'ed from the frontend and run mythtv-setup that way.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Paul Kidwell</b> <<a href="mailto:tmbomber@gmail.com">tmbomber@gmail.com</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;">
On 1/28/07, Damian Surr <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.com">damian@gingermagic.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> My question is...should I go with the server installation<br>> or the workstation installation?<br>
<br>I recommend going with a desktop install.<br><br>Why...<br><br>I tried the "Backend only" install found here:<br><br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Backend">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Backend
</a><br><br>Everything went swimmingly well until I hit "Install MythTV Backend" Step 4:<br><br>> 4. Run the initial MythTV setup app.<br>><br>> Note, this won't work on the local console, as it requires
<br>> an X server. You will either need to install an X server on the<br>> local machine (not recommended as its a waste of space and resources),<br>> or remotely connect to this machine using ssh and X forwarding. If
<br>> you have never forwarded an X application, I'd recommend you read the [WWW]<br><br>What followed was 3 hours of pure hell trying to get an x server link<br>running from a windows machine.<br><br>I finally gave up and installed the desktop.
<br><br>Things went *MUCH* smoother after that.<br><br>Paul<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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