[mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?
Paul V. Gratz
pgratz at gratz1.com
Fri Nov 4 11:56:25 EST 2005
On Thursday 03 November 2005 05:29 pm, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:07:24PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here!
>
> And maybe one of them can help me. I have a Xebian/Debian mix on my
> xbox right now and effectively can't use it for anything until the Xorg
> driver issue is resolved and/or MythTV is updated. I'd be interested in
> taking this opportunity to learn about Gentoo. Two questions:
>
> 1) Is it possible to transition to Gentoo on the X-Box without doing the
> save-game hack again? I see Xebian bzImage/initrd files in three
> different locations on my XBox (I installed Xebian into the E drive) and
> don't know which needs to be moved/replaced to cause it to boot to the
> minimal kernel for reinstallation.
You should be able to bootstrap yourself from any working linux dist as long
as there is a working ethernet. Its slightly off the beaten track but I
think they even have docs for it on the gentoo website.
I presume you want to keep using the same linux kernel due to some constraints
in setup of the Xbox? This should also be possible, although a bit more of a
hack.
> 2) Does MythTV/MythDVD/MythVideo work on Gentoo on XBox or am I just
> going to end up in the same place, with an X that's not compatible with
> Myth?
I'm not an expert on this but I'm pretty sure others here have posted on it.
Paul
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