[mythtv-users] OT: Booting Hard Drive-less Machine

[Kevin Kuphal]

Chad wrote:
>> Just for the record my kernel is booting off of a $10 128MB USB drive.  The
>> NFS root runs off of 1.8GB of the storage in the backend over a simple
>> 10/100 switched network.
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> :D
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> I'm cheap, but I think I can conjure up 10 bucks..  I guess I should
> have thought about that a bit, I have just been looking at the 1GB and
> up sticks...
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> Thanks!  That's probably the route I'm going to take, last night I
> tried PXE again, following instructions pretty thoroughly, and still
> got nothing (seems to be a DHCP problem, I'm apparently extremely
> dense with that stuff).
>   
I've got mine booting from a RH9/FC installation.  I'll be putting my 
instructions up on the Wiki this weekend.  I've gotten both PXE boot 
(testing with VM Player) and then a GRUB boot from HD (which should work 
in theory from any mass storage device) on my frontend for real.  I'm 
just going through some kernel driver compiles and then I should have a 
good set of instructions soon.

Kevin