A quick one... I know, they're all quick... anyway... I upgraded the DVR. MythTV, based on Fedora 8 (MythDora) with a 120 GB hard drive suffices, but we really needed more room to add movies, so that watching a DVD doesn't involve opening the DVD storage area, fighting the kids, and hoping they don't break the DVD player, or scratch a disk...
I love LVM. Expanding the storage pool was pretty much seamless.
However, one thing I hate about using "old" RedHat distros... trading features for stability. In order to transfer some of these movies to the DVR box, I had to physically bring the machine up to the network. I just had a wireless b adapter in the DVR to get guide information. That's really too slow to transfer anything.
I also didn't have a router. I was using ClarkConnect as a Gateway, and hadn't even put a wireless card in the box to do an access point. I was using a DWL-900AP+ wireless B access point. The machine I was using was a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz HT that I really could have been doing something else with, so I decided to get a D-Link DIR-655 gigabit wireless-n router, and a couple of D-Link DWA-552 adapters. Supposedly the Atheros chipset in those PCI adapters works in Linux.
I installed the router, downgraded my server to an old 450 MHz box with a 20 GB hard drive, and recommissioned the server. Everything is good, until I realize that Fedora 8, as configured in Mythdora didn't just plug and play the wireless N card.
So, what am I going to do? I'll consider trying to patch up Mythdora 5, or hope that the next version follows Fedora 10 really quick, and that the upgrade is somewhat seamless.
My CC box is doing well as a stand-in for Windows Home Server... I don't know if this 450 MHz / 20 GB will suffice. I'll definitely need more space, but I'm really starting to think about trialling those discs I got, and moving back to Vista on the desktop... sigh, we'll see.
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