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So I finally broke down and purchased the parts to build a MythTV box. I got a nice Antec Overture II case and an Athlon64 3000+ to power it. Assembling all of the pieces took longer then I thought as I had to remove the motherboard twice, once to attach the processor fan correctly, and the second time to install some risers so that the board was the correct height to install the PCI card. I am installing Gentoo on it as we speak. Kernel config took a long time as I had to make sure that all of my hardware was supported. Once completed, the kernel compile took all of 5 minutes!!! I remember back in the day when this would take over an hour. Ah, the good ole days of linux. Have I awakened a sleeping giant? What adventures await around the next corner? Stay tuned for the next episode of MythTV, The Revenge of the Myth, or Oh Boy, Time to Emerge It.

Update: After 3 kernel recompiles to rid myself of framebuffer support and to add support for my SATA drive (doh!!), I can now boot into the command line without needing the Gentoo boot CD. Hurray!!