<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 5/11/2012 14:34, Simon Hobson wrote:<br>
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By all means point out alternative (for some situations) and pitfalls,<br>
but please stop telling people they are wrong because they don't agree<br>
with you - for that is how you are coming across.<br>
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Gentoo packages their base install as a "stage 3" tarball. It's a fully functioning system minus a few config files for startup. Make a folder, download the tarball, unpack the tarball into the folder, and chroot into it running bash. This is actually the standard install procedure.<br>
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Build MythTV and dependencies using portage inside the chroot. Mount your storage disks inside the chroot. Mount instances of procfs and sysfs inside the chroot. Mount your /dev folder inside the chroot. All you have to do after that is instead of running `mythbackend`, you run `chroot /base/path mythbackend`. All the convenience of a separate Gentoo installation, dedicated to MythTV, for ease of management, but none of the hardware access difficulties that come from a full virtual machine.<br>
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Replace Gentoo with your distro of choice in the above.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>And that is a good and appropriate response and thank you.</div></div><br>