Eben King wrote:
> 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?
>
Hi Eben,
Is this a USB hard drive or solid state?
I had a similar issue with a USB hard drive in the past (I believe it
was the super cheap USB case). I had to connect the drive to an IDE
channel on my server to partition\format, popped it back in the USB case
and it worked.
-Chris
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