KnoppMyth on a 320G drive

[Colin McGregor]

--- Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 December 2006 01:52, Simon wrote:
> > The installer doesn't let you manually specify how
> to use the
> > partitions on the drive?  Yikes...  Perhaps you
> should make do with a
> > more mainstream distribution - I've never thought
> it necessary to have
> > a whole separate distribution just for the sake of
> one piece of
> > software.  Perhaps if it's a group of niche
> software and you want to
> > ensure that the latest copies get included, but
> even then, a
> > repository or overlay will do that just as well.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> Nope, I find it odd also, but KnoppMyth wants a
> whole drive all to itself.  I 
> assume so they have complete control based on past
> experiences.  

Not quite that simple, if you use the manual install
option KnoppMyth will try and put everything into the
first partition, and as long as that first partion is
5+ GB all is well. So, what I did for one KnoppMyth
box was:

- Boot into Knoppix, basicly partition the drive the
way I wanted, just made sure hda1 was 5 GB. Key point
in this process was I wanted /myth (which stores TV
shows) to be on hdc1.
- Boot into KnoppMyth, do basic install.
- Boot back into Knoppix, shifting things around, edit
/etc/fstab .
- Re-boot box and complete configuration of MythTV

A bit messy, but no real problems along the way.

Colin McGregor

> Lennart has said that the new version of MythTV on
> Debian is more up to date, 
> but KnoppMyth comes with a lot of config utilities
> which supposedly make the 
> setup easier. Not so far for me...
>  
> 
> -- 
> Merv Curley
> Toronto, Ont. Can
> 
> Kanotix Linux  Ver 2005-4   
> Desktop  KDE 3.5.1    KMail 1.2

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists