[mythtv-users] GUI setup using remote?

[Kevin Hulse]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:28:53PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/17/2006 01:33 PM, Chad wrote:
> 
> >Hello!
> >
> >Before I start out on a voyage to create something (or pay someone to
> >do it for me), I figured I'd ask if it (or something similar to it)
> >already exists somewhere...
> >
> >I am planning on creating a little pre-setup GUI to walk you through
> >things like configuring your system time zone, whether to use DHCP or
> >a static IP, hostname, and a few other basic linux settings.  I figure
> >this would be a nice 'icing on the cake' for setting up a new system.
> >It would all be controllable by a remote, so I'll either be using
> >irexec or maybe I'll add it as an addition to Myth so I can use it's
> >lirc interface.
> >
> >Anyway...
> >
> >Does anything like this exist?
> >
> 
> Wouldn't this be very distro-specific?  In my (very limited) experience 

	Just put a MythConfig script at the end of the init sequence
and hijack the whole lot of it. Those distro specific config files
are still driving the same universal tools underneath.

	Jut have Myth get in the last word.

> with distros, the GUI config tools distros give you to make configuring 
> your system easier often seem to maintain settings somewhere that 
> overwrite the low-level configuration files/info used by the vanilla GNU 
> tools on every (reboot|login|...).  And, even if you could modify the 
> low-level config file directly, distros often install them in different 
> locations.

	Let Myth do it's own thing. Make sure it gets in the last word.

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	rc.local baby!