1. You need a file to mount as a HDD device - using DD, the following will instantly create a file of SIZE Gigabytes:
   

   • dd if=/dev/zero of=myharddisk.img bs=1000 count=0 seek=$[1000*1000*SIZE]

2.  You need to make this file look like a block device (Choose a free /dev/loop device):

   • losetup /dev/loop0 myharddisk.img
     

3. Start partimage manually from the command line, pointing to your loop device
   

   • partimage /dev/loop0 backupfile.000
     

4. Remove the file from the loop device
   

   • losetup -d /dev/loop0
     

5. Mount the new file on a directory
   

   • mount myharddisk.img /path/to/dir -o loop
     

6. Enjoy the backup's files

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Ok - So, I've been waiting around for someone else to build a working mythtv front end for the wii, using home brew.

To say the least, I have up waiting and did it myself ;)

I took a basic Linux stack for the wii, found OOC deb packages and manually installed them into my SD card, tracked down and install all the required libs and well - to say the least - WIIIIIIII I have a mythtv front end, almost.

Unfortunatly, all the USB ethernet addaptors I have don't seem to work on the wii with linux - so I'll need to go pick up one of those to confirm that this is working. Once I get to confirm it's working, I'll preatty and clean it up build some tgz's of it and provide some details on how to install it.

Keep checking back here to see my progress!

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