I already did. Between Cecil's Pamphlet http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html and the latest upgrade hints http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10116 you should be styling. Granted I get a lot of practice, but I can now complete an upgrade (excluding DL-ing and burning the CD, but including the backup and other prep, and the post install tweaks) in under half an hour.

The two main places were people have trouble are, the X config for the TV and the ivtv drivers with certain newer Hauppauge cards. For the first there are plenty of good sample XF86Config-4 files available now, for the second the very detailed CompileIvtv instructions on the wiki should take about 5-10 minutes all told.

There is a lot of system corruption going around from people unknowingly using the apt-get command. It's been happening since at least August 2005.

I understand your frustraition. I unknowingly corrupted several KnoppMyth installs before I was told about this dirty little secret. Apparently, the problem is that the /etc/apt/sources.list file which sends apt-get off to servers to grab software, is pointed at the UNSTABLE folders in a number of the servers, so you innocently install Firefox and BOOM, your system is unrepairable. Reinstall is apparently the only fix. After I learned this I didn't use apt-get for anything and all has worked as it was intended.

Some forum posts have suggested manually editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file to change the words UNSTABLE to STABLE everywhere in the file. I did edit my local file, but have not been brave enough to risk apt-get again.

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

Hi,

Here is a link to what I just gave a gentleman somewhere else. Maybe there is something of value in it. Please notice, I don't use firefox.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... bef6bed50b

Mike