[mythtv-users] Failure at setting up diskless mythtv-frontend.

David Frascone dave at frascone.com
Tue Jun 12 00:35:10 UTC 2007


I installed my FE with a disk, installed ubuntu, got everything working,
then moved to diskless.

I followed the generic pxeboot instructions on some ubuntu site -- I can go
find them again if you want.

Mine runs great.  Although, I did have to setup a network swap device.  I
really need more memory for HD.

-Dave

On 6/11/07, clemens at dwf.com <clemens at dwf.com> wrote:
>
> I have spent what little spare time I have this last week trying
> to setup a diskless frontend for MythTV.
>
> It seemed like a good idea,- the less stuff I have in that box the
> better, less heat generation means its going to be quieter, and I
> have done Diskless machines with SunOS (tho that was probably
> 10 years ago or more), it just cant be that hard...
>
> Well, I followed the instructions out on the WEB for a diskless
> Linux machine (actually under MythTV) and was very unhappy.
> It seemed clear with their read-only root and writable changes
> mounted to it, I was going to spend the rest of my life findint where
> various programs wrote scratch files that the author hadnt run
> down.
>
> So I said, how hard can this be?
> After all Im only going to have ONE diskless machine, not many
> so the read-only root with  changes doesnt make any sense.  Just
> put a read-write root out there and run with it.  Well I got to 'step1'
> and honest boot, with two tries.  But from there on, I have yet to see
> the rc scripts run...  everything (say udev) depends on the existance
> or non-existance of /proc and /sys, and even when /proc is umounted
> its still there and the scripts fail...  No Idea how this works in a
> real boot.
>
> So, if anyone has tried, and succeeded with this, a diskless
> mythtv-frontend
> Id like to hear from you, and get some feeling for what you did.
>
> Other than that, after I come back from USENIX, I guess Ill just
> invest in a small, cheap, LOWPOWER (how do you find out about
> that) disk, and give up on the diskless part.
>
>
> --
>                                         Reg.Clemens
>                                         reg at dwf.com
>
>
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