[mythtv-users] Network boot
Mike Perkins
mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Jan 8 17:13:33 UTC 2009
Paul Bender wrote:
> Mike Perkins wrote:
>> Paul, "until the Myth frontend GUI is up and running" carefully omits the fact
>> that, on my minimyth system anyway, the front end spends longer building the
>> theme cache, twice, than it does booting up. Is there something magic I've not
>> figured out how to do? Isn't the cache, well, cached anywhere?
>
> On MiniMyth, you can save the themecache as long as you have configured
> the MiniMyth read-write configuration directory on your server. Just go
> into the MiniMyth tools menu on your MythTV frontend GUI
> (Utilities/Setup->MiniMyth Tools) and select "Save Themecache". This
> will cause MiniMyth to create a squashfs image of your themecache and
> save it to your MiniMyth read-write configuration directory. During
> boot, MiniMyth looks for the themecache squashfs image and uses it.
>
I've done all that, and nothing useful seems to happen. I've assumed it might be
some kind of permissions problem, but I can't find any obvious flaws.
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Mike Perkins
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