[mythtvnz] What is the best MythTV distribution to use?

Chris Bannister cbannister at slingshot.co.nz
Sun Aug 11 07:53:15 BST 2013


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:32:23PM +1200, Paulgir wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:36:01 +1200, Worik Stanton
> <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >On 11/08/13 13:25, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >>I have no idea why you seem to be targeted by the gremlins in all your
> >>Myth endeavours, but Mythbuntu is a good way to do MythTV.  Most of us
> >>do not have the problems you seem to with Mythbuntu.  The only other
> >>comprehensive MythTV system I know of is LinHES, which seems to have
> >>evolved out of the old KnoppMyth distribution I used initially.
> >>
> >>  http://www.linhes.org
> >>
> >>I have not followed it at all so I have no idea how good it is.
> >
> >I am looking at linhes.  The gremlins continue(!) and I cannot get a USB
> >boot disk made.  (The ubuntu startup disk creator will not, it seems,
> >work with non ubuntu derrived distributions)
> 
> 
> Which is why I always use Unetbootin.

Reading:
http://www.linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/Install_LinHES

" ...
Create Install Media
	The LinHES ISO can be burned to a CD or copied to a USB drive.
Transfer the image to the USB drive with the dd command.
Please be careful with this command as it's destructive.
Always double check that your using the right device for the USB drive.
dd if={LINHES.iso} of=/dev/{YOURUSBDRIVE}
... "

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