This is a list of sites I found useful while setting up a Debian Linux
system for use as a Video Disk Recorder and router for satellite
broadband.
- The Satellite HOWTO is a little dated but a good starting point.
- The linux-dvb mailing list is both for developers and users alike
so can be a bit technical. Be sure to search the archive before
diving in here as your question may have already been answered.
- The latest drivers can be obtained via CVS but are also available
as daily tar bundles from www.linuxdvb.tv
- For IP over DVB I had the greatest success with the older driver
refererred to in these instructions. The DVB data firmware update
from Hauppauge should be used to replace the
driver/Dpram and
driver/Root files in the distribution.
- dvbtune is used to tune the DVB card to the desired frequency and
bring up the network interface at the same time.
- The pptp client is usually required to connect to the satellite
ISP. This allows the routing of outbound traffic to the net via a
VPN tunnel to the satellite ISP.
posted by James Gemmell on Fri, 02 May 2003 at 17:29
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This document started off early in 2002 when I installed Redhat 7.2 on
the C400. I've been through several Redhat versions since 3.0.3 but,
after enduring a hard disk crash, I decided for a number of reasons
that Debian was the way to go.
Disclaimer: This document comes with no guarantees. The steps I
followed worked for me but may not necessarily work for you or your
hardware.
Configuration
- Debian 3.0r1 Woody
-
recompiled 2.4.18 kernel
no Windows installation (see later)
- PIII-M 866MHz CPU
-
1x 256Mb RAM
A09 BIOS
Crystal 4205 audio
3c905C-TX FastEthernet adapter (built-in)
- 10Gb Toshiba MK1517GAP
-
TrueMobile 1150 wireless (optional)
Installation
Partitioning the disk
The replacement drive was empty. The first step was to create a 768Mb
save-to-disk (s2d) partition using mks2d.exe on the disk from
Dell. The reason for choosing this size is that I intend adding
another 512Mb RAM at some point in the future. Dell recommends that
you set it up as 768Mb * 1.01 + 4Mb on the first partition so it's at
a little over 800Mb now.
/dev/hda2 is set up as 50Mb boot partition (probably overkill here)
and the remainder the root partition. No swap partition required at
this stage as I've found swapfiles to be quite adequate in the past.
Read more...
posted by James Gemmell on Wed, 30 Apr 2003 at 17:26
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