[mythtv-users] Idea for the most common installs

[Tom Howard]

It seems that the most common installs here are the Pundit, the Xbox
frontend, and the EPIA M10k.   By 'common' I mean that when someone uses the
pundit, Xbox or EPIA, they tend to also have installed a PVR
250/350/freestyle.  The Xbox frontend group has already started putting
together an install CD to make the process easier (an outstanding idea).
This works especially well with the Xbox since the hardware is identical on
all Xbox's.  What would be the biggest challenge in putting together a CD
for the Pundit and the EPIA (separate CD's of course), assuming 1 PVR card
and hosting both front and backend on the same machine?  In my own mind
(children singing, puppies and kittens frolicking in the spring flowers) it
would make installing much easier.  Basically it would be something like 

Mondo Archive (
http://www.microwerks.net/%7Ehugo/download/mondoarchive.1.html ) where you
pop it in, and let it do its thing.  When it boots up after the image, it
would go through the install script like now, only all the drivers and what
not would already be installed so a LOT less 'doh' and killings of otherwise
harmless machines.  Obviously a flavor of linux would have to be settled on
for each system, etc... but we all know that what matters is performance not
loyalty to a flavor.

I will go ahead and start the roasting with 'Patch Plz.'

 

--Tom

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