rorschach
July 20th, 2009, 05:07 PM
I'm wanting to do a headless install (re-install, really) on my system.
A little background:
The system in question used to be my main system - my desktop. I had it set up as a dual boot environment, with windows XP for occasional gaming. Over the last year, I have stopped using my desktop as a desktop entirely, using it as a media server for my living room.
Now, recently, I've been struggling to get .mkv files to be streamed successfully to any of my systems in the living room. I've tried many solutions, including fuppes, tversity (windows partition), mediatomb, and twonky media server. Most recently, I tried going through a few tutorials on doing a custom build of ffmpeg and mediatomb to allow for transcoding of the h.264 encoded mkv files. Since doing this, neither of the current media servers I can have running on the system work properly.
So now:
I'm at a point where I want to blow away the windows partition (I never boot into it anymore anyway), and would kind of like to do a cleaner install of Ubuntu, removing some of the mucking about I did in all of my multimedia endeavors. However, I'd ideally like to do this entirely remotely. Anyone know how I can accomplish that? Also - is there a particular flavor of Ubuntu that I should use rather than the main distro?
A little background:
The system in question used to be my main system - my desktop. I had it set up as a dual boot environment, with windows XP for occasional gaming. Over the last year, I have stopped using my desktop as a desktop entirely, using it as a media server for my living room.
Now, recently, I've been struggling to get .mkv files to be streamed successfully to any of my systems in the living room. I've tried many solutions, including fuppes, tversity (windows partition), mediatomb, and twonky media server. Most recently, I tried going through a few tutorials on doing a custom build of ffmpeg and mediatomb to allow for transcoding of the h.264 encoded mkv files. Since doing this, neither of the current media servers I can have running on the system work properly.
So now:
I'm at a point where I want to blow away the windows partition (I never boot into it anymore anyway), and would kind of like to do a cleaner install of Ubuntu, removing some of the mucking about I did in all of my multimedia endeavors. However, I'd ideally like to do this entirely remotely. Anyone know how I can accomplish that? Also - is there a particular flavor of Ubuntu that I should use rather than the main distro?