Hi people.
I have a DVR (really a bog-standard PC with an Nvidia Personal Cinema video
card) which until recently has run XP. It ran -- well, OK. Not great. In
fact with its WLAN connection dropping every few weeks, for no apparent
reason and with no consistent fix, maybe not so OK.
Anyhow, we got digital cable, and that card doesn't tune it (needs QAM), and
the DVR software I use won't handle a card that _does_ tune it, and doesn't
go past channel 99 _anyway_, I figure now is a good time to try out MythTV.
So I hijacked a USB drive from around here, part of which was already set up
for Linux, and am using that to install MythTV on and make it work.
This isn't a permanent solution, just a testbed, so I don't have to scrap an
installation on which I can watch and record whatever channel the cable box
is tuned to. The DVR computer can't even boot from USB; I'll have to use
LOADLIN.EXE to get it up.
Anyhow, I'm getting ahead of myself. I downloaded and am installing Ubuntu
6.07 LTS, going through manual partitioning. Whenever it tries to write an
ext3 filesystem, it fails. Next time I run the install, that partition gets
an ext2 filesystem, and it succeeds. My hypothesis is that it fails writing
the journal. Is this an accurate hypothesis, and if so, any ideas about why
it should be so and do you forsee any showstoppers in my future?
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an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"
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