Hi, I am totally new to Linux and Mythtv. I have sucessfully installed Knoppmyth on an ABIT AT7 with 1gig Ram and 13Gig HD and a 1.2Ghz Duron and a Hauppauge Nova-T (9002) DVB card and FX5200 video card. TV runs fine and I love the functionality like pause/jump etc but it seems to record anything and everything I watch! Is that correct? Will the recordings be deleted automatically? Also I am having trouble with reading music CD's and the system froze and then crashed then killed the motherboard until I cleared the CMOS and re-formatted (NTFS on a windows machine) and re-installed knoppmyth. I know my system is very low power but was/am trying it out before bying any more hardware. I tried it on my Time computer but it was all the wrong chipsets etc and couldn't get it to work at all.
I also note that many solutions require code at the root (I assume similar to A> prompt) but my system always seems to auto boot straight to Knoppmyth - perhaps because I have so far only been able to turn it off by holding the power button for 10 secs so could you also tell me HOW DO YOU TURN IT OFF safely and properly??

Well you're off to a bad start.

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