Linux install signup for PVR

Anne McCadden <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:39:45 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.aclug.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
James Lancaster requested that this announcement be made for the PVR grou=
p:

This Saturday, the ACLUG Personal Video Recorder Group will be installing=
 the
software on their PVR, It will be held in 116 Neff Hall, and will be star=
ting
at 2pm. We ask that you get there as early as possible, because some of t=
he
steps can take a while, and that you sign up (people who have signed up g=
et
priority) by sending an email with their config (prefered distro, and bas=
ic
compute specs) to [email protected].


Requirements for Installation:
1.Select one of Gentoo, Fedora, Debian
2.A TV Tuner: of types talked about at meetings, installed.=20
(Preferably bttv or ivtv based, others may or may not work.)
3.A computer that is either pre-partitioned, or ready to partition, with =
no
requirement to preserve partitions currently on there. The computer must =
be
faster than 400MHz, at a minimum with at least 128MB RAM and at least a 1=
0GB
Hard Drive. (If you have a computer that is slow, please install your
distribution.)
4.If using Gentoo, have installed certain packages (listed on a seperate =
sheet)
5.Checked that the compuer will boot up and works.



If Using Gentoo:
1.Have emerged the system.
2.Have emerged & configured Xfree86.
3.Have emerged Qt with the mysql USE flag.
4.Have emerged Mythtv

Sorry for the late release and we hope that this won't inconvience anyone=
 in the=20
PVR group.  ~Anne




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