I removed the 'Hauppauge HVR 1300' card from my MythTV box. At the same time I downloaded the ISO for 'Lenny'. I installed the MythTV box in my rack and connected it up to my KVM and network.
When I booted the server with the 'Lenny' installation CD the screen (a very old 14") came alive
but was not readable. I did not understand why until I decided to connect the 17" that I had used to install
MythTV. Now I could see everything. I now could see that I needed to press DEL
to get into the BIOS.
The output was set to CRT,TV
. I changed it to CRT
. When I connected the 14" screen I was
able to read the screen. The installation of 'Lenny' was a piece of cake. Just 3 little problems.
/etc/hosts
file until the DNS service is running./etc/apt/sources.list
was not modified. The 'local'
package server was not defined so I had to add this myself:
deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
The first package I installed (after looking for patches) was SSH
. This way I am able to connect through
SSH to my server from anywhere in my network.
aptitude update aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude install ssh
Next in line is NTP
, DNS, and DHCP.
aptitude install bind9 dhcp3-server ntp
NTP
installed without a problem. No extra configuration is needed. DNS
also installed without a
problem. As a result I can now ping freely to the internet so I removed the lines from the /etc/hosts
file.
I need to configure it further. DHCP
gave more problems. The startup failed. The problem was that the
configuration files /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
and /etc/default/dhcp3-server
were not modified. I put
in some values and then the service started. I need to configure it further. Look at the pages for more information.