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| Author: | gatorback [ Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | IBM T23 |
Has anyone had any success installing on a laptop. I would like to install onto an IBM T23. Not sure how I would get the video into the USB or PCMCIA. Constructive suggestions are appreciated. |
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| Author: | cliffsjunk [ Fri May 23, 2008 10:03 am ] |
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Edit: Oh, you seem to be wanting to install backend too... That is a much larger issue and you hit the nail on the head. The issue will be video capture. USB 2.0 would seem to be the way to go. I don't think USB 1.x will be fast enough. Laptop hard drives are not very fast or big either. An external USB 2.0 hard drive mounted as /myth would be the way to go. Cliff I've installed mythtv-frontend on two Ubuntu laptops and had no problems with either (that I remember). I have Wifi on both and they make such a great second TV that we use them as a primary TV. I really recommend installing Ubuntu and then installing mythtv-frontend from synaptic (or apt-get). It works good and you can still use your laptop for other things, especially vacation oriented, like internet, music, digital picture storage, etc. The one issue with this at this point is that KnoppMyth is currently MythTV 0.20 and the latest Ubuntu is MythTV 0.21 and they don't mix. I hear that connecting an 0.21 FE to an 0.20 BE will prompt you for to upgrade and if you say yes, your BE will have problems. Supposedly, very shortly, KnoppMyth 5.5 will be released, which will be MythTV 0.21 and this issue will go away. If you want to use Ubuntu, you need to install the previous version (7.10 aka Gutsy) AND force the install of the last 0.20 version of mythtv-frontend (or wait till release 5.5 of KnoppMyth comes out, at which point the latest mythtv-frontend is what you want). From a root prompt in gutsy (7.10): Code: apt-get update apt-get install mythtv-frontend=0.20.2* If you wait to use KM R5.5 then do this from either gutsy or hardy: Code: apt-get update
apt-get install mythtv-frontend Both of these sets of instructions will download and install all the mythtv stuff and will ask you if it is OK to install maybe 30 or so other packages. Answer yes. Warning I have not installed this since Ubuntu went to 0.21 so do it first thing after getting the network running in case (<1%) it blows up. On any front end only install if you can mount the FE's /myth to the BE's /myth via the network (and accessible from the mythtv user) you get other good things like playing your myth videos just like you do from the BE/FE. Good luck if you are still out there. Cliff |
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