[mythtv-users] Myth in 20 hours!

[Jack R Hyde]

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Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

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>On Tuesday 27 January 2004 00:55, Jeff Blair wrote:
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>>Well, if I could get MythTV to compile on my Opteron system, I could get
>>it from a blank HD to a working system in about 4 hours.  It takes me
>>about 3 hours to get it up and booting.  I love that thing.  :)
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>I'm new to Gentoo, so I must be doing something wrong. I decided to start in 
>on a stage1 install on my dual Athlon MP 2000+ system (w/1.5GB of RAM, 4x36GB 
>U160 10k rpm HW RAID-0 array). It just took about two hours to move from 
>stage1 to stage2. I just started 2->3...
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>Or do I just have no clue how fast an Opteron really is? Also, is that a 
>dual-proc system? And what all does "up and booting" consist of? (i.e., do 
>you have X, a desktop environment, etc., or just the bare essentials to 
>boot?).
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>- --jarod
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Opteron's are quite a bit faster, but not as fast as these results would 
lead you to believe. Anybody building gentoo on an Opteron is using the 
newest live cd's, which have an updated bootstrap.sh script that no 
longer requires glibc, gcc, etc to be built twice. Yes, thats right, 
older gentoo boot straps actually built quite a few things twice. So 
yes, the opteron is quite the speedy chip, but it's not near 2x as fast =)

Just finished my new mythtv box  (overature case) in an antec overture 
case with a amd64 3200+. Pretty sweet little rig. Too bad mythtv doesn't 
compile yet on amd 64. First you have the gcc bug, then you have the non 
native assembler code apparently.

>>On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 23:23, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
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>>>On Jan 26, 2004, at 20:07, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard wrote:
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>>>>I already did it in ~8 hours compiling _everything_ from source using
>>>>gentoo, but I was only reformatting my current setup (no messing
>>>>around to find what to configure and how, all the config files were
>>>>backed up).
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>>>An entire bare-metal Gentoo install from stage1 to working in only 8
>>>hours on a Celery?!?... I'd swear I put in at least 30 hours of
>>>compiling over the course of a week here on a dual PIII-733 system to
>>>get everything up and running, but that did included full emerges of
>>>gnom, kde and xfce4...
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>>>>The thing was only a Celeron 1100A (rebranded P3, has the same amount
>>>>of cache - so not fast, but not slow either). I'm still surprised
>>>>everything was compiled and running so quick!
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>>>Oh, and if we're going to compare bare-metal to fully working and fully
>>>up to date MythTV system times, I can certainly beat 8 hours. My best
>>>is sub-2.5 hours. (On Red Hat, all binary rpms -- I could shave another
>>>.5 to 1 hour off if I didn't worry about getting completely up to date
>>>with all my packages ;-).
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>- -- 
>Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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