[mythtv-users] Semi-OT - Netboot a mythfrontend?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 20:42, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> I know it's late the night before Thanksgiving in
> the US...I've got a quick question.  I'm trying to
> whip up a frontend to hook up to my main TV
> tomorrow to show off MythTV to a bunch of
> relatives.  I have a spare machine (just found
> it yesterday, woohoo!), but it has no hard drive.
> No biggie, I figure I can netboot it and keep it
> quiet as well.  I've googled all over the place,
> and I'm getting as far as the machine being able
> to read its configuration/boot file.  Every place
> on the 'net says that I need a boot image and an
> initrd.  The problem is, I can't find one.  If
> anyone has experience with doing net booting,
> I'd really appreciate the help.  Oh, I'm running
> FC2, kernel 2.6.8-1.521.  The target machine
> is a P3 1ghz machine.  I figure it's good enough
> to do frontend work...
>
> Further to that, how do I build a myth frontend
> that will load up over a net booted session?  I've
> only ever done it via a local disk.  Come to think
> of it, I've never done a netboot setup before
> either, so I've got two battles to win before
> tomorrow at 2pm...

Its actually not too difficult if you follow Red Hat's docs. They're for 
RHEL3, but it works for FC2, just sub system-config-netboot for 
redhat-config-netboot.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-diskless.html

Only thing they're missing is that the client install MUST have the 
busybox-anaconda package on it, or it'll never boot. On the down side, this 
procedure requires a hard drive onto which you'd do the initial 
installation...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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