linux.yes.nu/DigiMyth - Setting up a DigiMatrix HTPC with Linux

 
 
 
   
Booting it up + Base system config
To get it to boot wasn't that hard. I mean, come on, it's a regular Pentium 4 with pretty standard components. (At least when it comes to get it to boot.)

However, I've put up the kernel config at the actual DigiMyth box at home.

In my default runlevel, I have mysql, mythbackend, lircd, alsasound and lm_sensors for the multimedia features. Since I'm using the box as a firewall at home, I also have ez-ipupdate, dhcp, sshd, iptables, net.eth[01] and apache2.

Last but not least, I have created my own init.d files for asusfan and startx. (asusfan and startx init.d files)
The startx init.d file calls start-x-wm-myth which in turn calls start-wm-myth
This is not the proper way to do it.. if you have a better suggestion, please let me know.

I chose to partition my 250GB drive pretty easy - 14GB for /, 40MB for /boot, 1GB for swap, and the rest (220GB) for /mnt/store where I let MythTV search for music, video and pictures.

To have a seamless access to the flashcards inserted, I tried using submount/subfs and it worked good enough. But it's not totally seamless (spits out errors when I df, for example) and doesn't work all that reliable.
If anyone have another, better solution I'd be glad to try it until MythTV supports HAL/D-Bus.

Anyway, the fstab entry is:
/dev/sda1               /mnt/smartmedia subfs           fs=vfat,sync,umask=0    0 0
Updated: 2007-10-28 10:32:57
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