[mythtv-users] Diskless frontend

Calvin Harrigan calvinharrigan at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 12 17:46:53 UTC 2003


Zalman's HSFs seem to work pretty good, I have one on an 1800+ and it's
whisper quite.
I too am looking for a really quite power supply, fanlesss if possible...
let me know what you find out.


Calvin...


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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless frontend


> I have booted both off flash and from the network on my Epia.  Should
> be the exact same for any PXE-enabled BIOS.
>
> Honestly after getting PXE going, I don't think CF is worth while.  Boot
> time is real similar I didn't time the difference, but I think its real
> negligable.
>
> My EPIA does have a 60 watt fanless powersupply.  Still has a processor
> fan though.  I was hoping to dump the processor fan though.  Maybe with
> a mondo heat sink
>
>
> >
> > Has anyone tried to use a Compact Flash to IDE adapter to create a
diskless
> > frontend (http://www.cwlinux.com/eng/products/products_ide2cf.php)?
> >
> > The motherboard of the machine I would like to use does not support net
boot,
> > and it would be a nice and quiet machine with no drive. The compact
flash
> > cards are not as cheap as harddrives but they make no noise and use less
> > power which means I can possibly go with fanless powersupply creating a
> > no-noise myth frontend.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > -Emil
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