BEAM HomeSys Project

System Setup

Introduction

The system consists of a master HomeServer and any number of clients. Simple clients can network boot of the main server.

Main Server Configuration

After the main system was installed a configuration script, configServer, was used to setup the server for use.

  1. Fedora 2 Test3 was fully installed with all packages
  2. Create /data directories
  3. Setup DHCP
  4. Setup TFTP
  5. Setup the TV clients root directory

Additional Packages

  1. Installed the latest Via DRI driver in the TV clients 2.6.x kernel.
  2. Installed the latest Via X11 driver in the latest Xorg sources and built and installed it.
  3. Installed the latest Via XvMc library in the latest Xorg sources and built and installed it.
  4. Installed lame
  5. Installed libddmpeg
  6. Installed MythTV