[vdr] Re: Some hardware-questions

[Oliver Friedrich <oliver@familie-friedrich.de>]

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Stefaan Coddé schrieb:

|>Rene Hertell wrote:
|>On Sunday, May 02, 2004 6:07 PM
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|>>Hi list!
|>>
|>>I have finally convinced myself that I will build myself a VDR ASAP. I
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|>just
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|>>wanted to get some usage-opinions on the hardware I'm planning to buy:
|>>
|>>Epia-MII (1000 or 1200)
|>>Rebach HTPC case (www.rebach.com)
|>>1Gig Ram
|>>Large and silent 5400 rpm HDD
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|  You could  stick to less memory cause 1GB is really much for a VDR based
| system. 128MB is enough.
| I don't have the epia with CF card slot but double check that the
board can
| really bootfrom the compact flash card. Why not everything on harddisk?
| A minimised linux distro  without Xwindows support is not so big and you
| don't need X to run VDR.

I have a Epia 5000 and it boot fine from CF. But don't use a CF card
like a harddrive. It will be shorten its life time ...

Instead boot the system into a ramdisk. I'm using 256 MB RAM (128 MB
should be enough) to run my VDR box. 48 MB MB are needed for the ramdisk
of the system. That's all.

I have not harddrive in the box and the recordings are written via the
network to my server ...

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Mit freundlichen Grüssen,
Oliver Friedrich


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