[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M as a tiny frontend

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Jun 7, 2004, at 1:21 AM, Per Åge Sørvik wrote:

> anders smith wrote:
>
>> I'm just not a great fan of slim line drives and was hoping to find a 
>> dongle style powersupply (like most laptops use) and then build a 
>> very compact box with just a standard dvd drive and the me6000 so 
>> that I get a completely fan less frontend unit around 40cm x 20cm x 
>> 5cm.....
>>
>> Do you have any pointers as to what might be the least painless way 
>> to get the dvd in the otherwise disk less frontend?
>>
> If you don't want slimline drives, then you either have to get a 
> larger box, or an external drive. Personally I don't have anything 
> against slimline drives, but I guess an external firewire drive could 
> be just  as nice, but a bit more expensive.

I opted to simply go driveless in the Travla C137 I just set up 
(booting FC1 over NFS). All my movies and music are already on my file 
server, and in the prior six months, I don't think the system the 
Travla replaced had a single CD or DVD put in it...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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