[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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