[mythtv-users] Diskless frontend

[Tim Harvey]

Adrian,

Sounds pretty cool, I would be interested in hearing more about your
diskless frontend setup.   I assume your bios needs to support booting
from USB media... do you know how common is this these days?

How long does it take your frontend to boot in this manner?

Tim


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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of adrian at lawsonlundell.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:40 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Diskless frontend
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I love Mythtv I now watch all my television on myth. I was impressed
with
> 0.10 and am now running 0.11 and love all the new features, I only use
the
> official releases don't have the time to mess with cvs so I won't
complain
> about the minor glitches.
> 
> I currently have a headless backend machine running gentoo with one
tuner
> in it that is also my media server, mp3s, videos, games etc. I run the
the
> front end from a diskless mobo with bultin vga lan audio that boots
from a
> USB memory stick. I used the knopmyth distro for the frontend, once
the
> kernel loads from the memory stick the root file system is mounted
from an
> nfs share on the server this was easy since knoppix is already
designed to
> be booted from read only medium and there is still plenty of room on
the
> USB memory stick for a persistent home drive or whatever. It took a
little
> while to work out the details and I was surprised that I couldn't find
> anyone else doing this. It seemed a lot easier to me than getting PXE
or
> etherboot working and setting up tftp and bootp or dhcp. The total
cost
> for the front end machine was about $130 so I might just put these all
> over the house.
> 
> If anyone is interested in the details let me know.
> 
> Adrian.
> 
>
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