[mythtv-users] Compact flash setup

[Adam Felson]

For the backend you're going to have a huge drive that'll be
read/written to every few seconds.  It's senseless to put your OS on
compact flash.  The core of the running OS will be in main memory anyway
as will your running applications.

CF only makes sense for a frontend only system and for that you'll want
either a 1-2GB card, or have a major part of your file system on a
remote NFS drive.



On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 13:15 +0000, Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello all again,
> 
> Am going to get a EPIA MII12000 board for my front/backend (along with 
> the PVR350 of course...) and 512MB of memory- is it worth using a 256MB 
> or getting a 512MB compact flash card and store all the operating system 
> etc on that, disable swap, and set the computer to turn off the hard 
> drive after say 5 mins of inactivity?  Or should I just put the 
> operating system on the hard drive?  And importantly, can the EPIA board 
> boot from the onboard Compact Flash socket?
> 
> Thanks very much for your help in advance
> 
> Cheers - Piers
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