MythDora — MythTV 0.2 In a Box

peterdaly writes "MythDora 3 is the first MythTV 'in-a-box' style distribution to include MythTV 0.20. Based on Fedora Core 5, MythDora 3 is designed to format your hard drive then install everything needed for a fully functional MythTV System. Here is a walkthrough of the entire MythDora installation process, including screenshots and a screencast."

Why does Myth think it's an OS

[gr8_phk]

Why not just install Fedora and then "yum install mythtv"? Why has installation of Myth always been non-trivial? Now it's to the point where someone would rather format and install the entire OS...

My 2 cents

[rgavril]

If you're willing to install a linux distribution in your living room you should give Pluto [plutohome.com] a try. It incorporates myth and many more from media to home automation and is a free as in beer Debian based Linux.

MythDora won't install for me.

[bgarcia]

I tried installing MythDora on a Dell XPS 410. Didn't work. Knoppmyth wouldn't install either.

The problem is that my desktop has no legacy interfaces. In particular, the DVD drive is SATA, and the keyboard is USB. Knoppmyth and Mythdora cannot currently handle installing from a SATA optical drive. Knoppmyth kindly popped me out to a shell when it couldn't find the installation source directory, but the drivers for the USB keyboard apparently hadn't been loaded, so I couldn't type anything anyhow.

I'm currently installing Myth 0.20 over Fedora Core 6 with the help of the MythTV on Fedora HOWTO [wilsonet.com] by Jarod Wilson. It's been very helpful, but I still find myself spending a lot of time tweaking things to get everything working correctly. MythTV installation is just plain hard.

Re:MythBuntu would be cool

[strick1226]

Just recently, I did try an Ubuntu Edgy combo backend/frontend setup on another machine (my main box runs KnoppMyth).

I found it to be incredibly easy to setup, and there are some pretty good guides ready for anyone with the interest:

http://https//help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/ [https]

For what it's worth, I did try setting up my backend about 1.5 years ago with Debian, but the dependencies and everything proved to be a bit too painful for my use. I settled on using KnoppMyth and I have to give the guys credit--it's hard to imagine getting a MythTV setup much easier than it provides. Great scripts and utilities, plus the most important thing--a good community with lots of helpful folks in the forums.

As easy as Edgy was to get going, I wouldn't be surprised to see something along the lines of MythUbuntu or UbuMyth showing up sometime soon.