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Posted by Freewheeling on 09/25/33 11:56
Wes Newell wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:40:04 -0400, Freewheeling wrote:
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>> Downloaded and burnt KnoppMyth R5C7. Not sure what to do with it. Can I
>> just replace/overwrite Deskto/LX? That's not much good to me anymore.
>>
> KnoppMyth? Is that what I said? I meant Knoppix. KnoppMyth is
> preconfigured to set up your system as a MythTV box. Don't run it unless
> you want to wipe out everything on your drive. Knoppix is linux that runs
> off the CD and doesn't use your HDD. With Knoppix, just set the CD as the
> first boot device and boot. KnoppMyth won't do you any good unless you
> have at least one TV tuner card and want to turn your PC into a HTPC. I
> sure am sorry about that. I use Knoppmyth for frontend clientsoff my
> mythtv server and just had it on the brain. It's Knoppix you want, or any
> of the other so called live CD that run completely from the CD and don't
> use your hard drive (unless you have a linux swap partition on it). If
> you've already installed Knoppmyth, you'll have to reinstall XP or
> whatever OS you were using. Knoppmyth won't play your dvd without
> another library installed unless it's an unrpotected dvd. if you have one
> of them it'll play it fine, or should. Wow, I'm really sorry for the
> screwup in names.
Oy. I got about halfway through the installation to where it had
apparently saved the configuration information and backed out. I
couldn't "quit" or even "go back" so the whole thing looked pretty
shakey to me and I just re-booted everything. I was afraid that my XP
box had been compromised, but it seems to work OK. Even the Desktop/LX
seems to still work... so far.
I'm not sure what KnoppMyth did though, so am still a bit worried. It
may have found a section of my main drive that was free and partitioned
it for the installation, possibly wiping out some data or something.
I'd like to repartition everything so that I can wipe out that Lycos
installation and use that for XP, but there isn't even a Lycos user
group any more. Whoever bought them out just killed everything, and
left all the users hanging. Bunch of jerks. Anyway, as a result I'm
not to friendly anymore to Linux.
BTW, I tried to update my BIOS but I apparently need to create a
"bootable floppy" to do it, and don't think I can with any of the later
Windows distributions. I'm not sure how to update, but the latest
version for the A7M is 1007 and I have 1004 installed, so it'd be a good
idea to update (if I can figure out how to do it).
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