On the weekend I decided to remove the WinServer 2003 from the equation (acting as a file server on a 400Mhz P3), and move the drives to the SuSE server, as well as use a bigger case to hold everything.
So I move all the bits to the other bigger case, add the DMA100/133 IDE controller with the two 250Gig drives, and boot it up. All works well, expect that I keep noticing that after a few reboots, I get a lot of file system rebuilds on the root partition. After a few more reboots, the Reiserfs has taken enough of a beating that it stops half way through tie startup phase.
So I do a repair off the SuSE setup disks, and try again (hoping that it was just a software problem). Nope. Still does it.
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Two things: Cedega and VMWare
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You know how once you solve a computer (or any other type of) problem, you tell yourself that you’ll never forget how to solve it if it happens again, since you just wasted 27 hours of your life figuring out the solution?
And what happend next month after you’ve had to deal with a dozen other issues, and same problem comes up again? Yes, you end up spending 22 hours (because you remembered 5% of the original solution)…
Anyhoo, I’m vowing not to make that mistake again. And since I’ve had to re-install SuSE several times since I started donw this linux road, I’m going to try to make this blog a record of the issues I’ve come across, and how I resolved them. Because _I’m 100% SURE_ it will come in handy again.
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And since the server machine will be used as a internet server as well as a local file/video/audio server, I was happy to come accross this link:
ISP Server Setup SuSE 10.0
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I’ve been so busy (since last weekend) with configuring and playing with Suse, that I realy haven’t missed XP all that much. Last night I was hoping to get some .avi files converted to mpegs, (TMPEGenc would do the job on XP) but had little success in the 20 min I spent trying.

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After I shuffled a bit of hardware between my computers, I ended up the Asus A7N8X Sempron 2400 as the server with a 120 gig drive and the ECS K7S5A Athlon 2000 with the 160 gig drive (which used to be in the old workstation PC) will now be the current workstation. Continue reading →

My linux network shuffling has began…

Yesterday I brought up the HTPC (Athlon 2000) and after a few HDs got shuffled, (put the 160 gig into the Athlon 2000 machine which will be the workstation, and put the 120 gig from the HTPC into the new server machine Sempron 2400) I blew away everything ion the 120 gig drive, and proceded to install SuSE SLICK 10.0. Continue reading →

Since I’m going to put a fresh install of Suse on this test mythtv server machine once this trial is done, I need to document all the steps I’m taking to get EVERYTHING running on this machine, in an effort to make things go as smoothly/quickly as possible. Continue reading →

Some more thoughts on the migration to the new MythTv server/client process I started talking about last week House PC Restructure
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After reading Linux HTPC HowTo I’m a little more comfortable installing MythTv. Lots of great info on there.
I’m still a little unsure about whether I can play the MythTV files from a windows PC.
Just found this link: Suse 9.3/10.0 Multimedia which seems to have a nicely written quickguide to setting up multimedia (as well asn MythTV) on Suse. Right up my alley!