[mythtv-users] How big CF card for frontend?

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Mon Feb 16 02:34:25 UTC 2009


Colin McGregor wrote:
> On 2/15/09, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>   
>> Colin McGregor wrote:
>>     
>>> On 2/15/09, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> How large would a CF card need to be to hold a mythbuntu front end? I
>>>> am hoping 4G but can't find a figure anywhere.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Just over a month ago I put the Mythbuntu front end on to a USB memory
>>> key. It was quite happy on a 1 GB key. I don't recall if it would fit
>>> on a 512 MB key (probably, but I was just testing things, and the 1 GB
>>> memory key was what I had handy). Bottom line, a 4 GB CF card would be
>>> SERIOUS over kill.
>>>
>>>       
>> I built a qt3 embedded system in 16 MB of flash.  I don't know how big
>> the frontend is, but I'd bet you could build the whole thing in 32 MB of
>> flash.
>>     
>
> You may well be right.
>
> However, Mythbuntu does have a utility for building a bootable USB
> memory key image. If you use that utility, you will have a much bigger
> than 32 MB image :-( . Obviously there will be stuff (likely a LOT of
> stuff) that could be stripped out by hand. On the other hand, with 1
> GB memory keys going for under $10, well, doing a lot of hand tweaking
> isn't worth it in my books... Your mileage might however vary...
>   
True.... But you could add it to OpenEmbedded and build for a platform 
of your choice.  Now the question is:  Is there interest?  Or is this 
one of those one-off projects?  And, how portable is the myth code?  
Would it run on anything other than x86?

--Yan


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