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Re: My Excellent MythBuntu Adventure

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for the install of MythBuntu, how much HDD space does it take up?
About 5gb for a complete fresh install including frontend & backend, or probably much less than a gig on top of your existing Ubuntu installation.

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Can you set the recording folder to a network drive easilly?
Yep, just mount the network share somewhere in your file system and then tell your backend where you want to store the recordings

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I have a 4GB thumbdrive with Ubuntu installed, i could plug that into my HTPC and setup the frontend on that
Definatley, just install all the required mythtv packages from the repositories.
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