[mythtv-users] Lean Distro for Myth-Frontend

[Chris Henderson]

On 6/17/06, Shawn Asmussen <shawn.asmussen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/16/06, Matthias Thyroff <Matthias at thyroff.net > wrote:
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> > Hello, everybody,
> >
> > can you recommend a lean distribution for installing a myth frontend?
> >
> > I have a PC running now as thin client (ltsp - diskless system), which
> > more or
> > less works but the thin client adds some complexity for me which I would
> > like
> > to circumvent (I could not get sensors to work, for example).
> >
> > I read a post somewhere about a ubuntu based "fat diskless client", that
> > would
> > be ok for me, but I have not found information on how to set this up.
> >
> > So I thought I could install Linux on a 256Mb or 512Mb CF card, I have a
> > CF-to-IDE adaptor, but it seems that Ubuntu is too large for that.
> >
> > On the other hand, there is, for example "damn small linux", which just
> > is
> > about 50MB, but I am not sure wether it will be easy to install the myth
> > frontend on that... missing dependencies, too limited kernel, myth not
> > available as a package...?
> >
> > So, here the question (again): Do you have experience with some lean
> > distribution which will allow, for example, "apt-get install
> > mythtv-frontend"?
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> >
> Well, as an experiment, shortly after Ubuntu Dapper was released, I
> installed it on a 512Mb USB memory stick, and managed to get mythfrontend up
> and running using the Breezy packages. I had to manually remove some
> unneeded packages to make room for mythtv though, and there wasn't enough
> room for the apt cache files to live in AND install all of the things needed
> to make mythfronend work, so a lot of things went in by hand with dpkg. In
> the end though, it did end up being usable as a frontend, but I don't think
> you'd be able to fit anything more than just the basic mythfrontend on it.
> With a 1Gb memory stick or CF card, I'm sure you could get Ubuntu working
> with the full suite of mythtv packages without too much trouble aside from
> whatever manual steps you had to take to make it bootable off of the medium
> you were installing to.
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Hi there is a Myth distro call Minimyth. do a search around the forum and
you should find a link to it.

On the Dora front i just finnished an 'custom' install of it and cos i was
lazy i just selected the 'everything' button (really I only went the custom
route so i could partition the HDD the way i want it). the total size was
1077mb if i remember correctly.

Jump onto the mythdora site www.g-ding.tv and dennis will give you as much
support as he can. Please document this for the rest of us. I started to
play with this, but could not find a CF - IDE adapter at the local swap
meet. I have not tried the USB stick route yet. Also i have just had to
rebuild the backend as one of the HDD was flaky (hence the partitioning )
and i could not figure out which one it was........


CH
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