SETUP OF NEW MythBuntu 9.10 x86

Rev D3A Media MediaMVP (non-flash; older)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/MediaMVP_Frontend

http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/mvpmc-HOWTO-singlehtml.html

Added  before the exit 0 in /etc/rc.local

/usr/sbin/atftpd --daemon --port 16869 --retry-timeout 120 \

--mcast-addr 192.168.1.0-255 --mcast-ttl 2 --verbose=7 /tftpboot

/usr/sbin/atftpd --daemon --port 69

Disabled DHCP on my Cable/DSL router

apt-get install atftpd dhcp3-server xinetd

Added the following to the /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

INTERFACES="eth0";

option domain-name              "local";

option subnet-mask              255.255.255.0;

option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;

allow bootp;

allow booting;

#option ip-forwarding    false;  # No IP forwarding

#option mask-supplier    false;  # Don't respond to ICMP Mask req

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

  option routers        192.168.1.1;

  range 192.168.1.12 192.168.1.25;

}

group {

  next-server 192.168.1.3;          # IP address of your TFTP server

  host mvp1 { # NOTE: Change the hardware ethernet to the MAC address of your actual MVP

           hardware ethernet 00:0d:fe:xx:xx:xx;

           fixed-address 192.168.1.31;

           filename "dongle.bin";

           option root-path "/home/mvp,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,nolock";

  }

  host mvp2 { # NOTE: Change the hardware ethernet to the MAC address of your actual MVP

           hardware ethernet 00:0d:fe:xx:xx:xx;

           fixed-address 192.168.1.32;

           filename "dongle.bin";

           option root-path "/home/mvp,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,nolock";

  }

}

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mvpmc/mvpmc/mvpmc-0.3.4/dongle.bin.mvpmc-0.3.4?use_mirror=iweb

dongle.bin.config

export TZ="MST+7MDT"

/bin/ntpclient -s -h us.pool.ntp.org

mkdir /aRecordings

mkdir -p /var/lib/mythtv/old-recordings

mkdir -p /var/lib/mythtv/recordings

mount -t nfs -o nolock,rsize=2048,wsize=2048,nfsvers=3 192.168.1.2:/var/lib/mythtv/link-share /aRecordings

mount -t nfs -o nolock,rsize=2048,wsize=2048,nfsvers=3 192.168.1.2:/var/lib/mythtv/old-recordings /var/lib/mythtv/old-recordings

mount -t nfs -o nolock,rsize=2048,wsize=2048,nfsvers=3 192.168.1.2:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings /var/lib/mythtv/recordings

mvpmc &

Edit /etc/exports on the myth backend; do not forget to run exportfs -ra after you modify the nfs configuration.

 

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