[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

[Phill Edwards]

> You don't happen to have a record of how you set up the iscsi?  The iscsi backend is easy enough, but I think I need to get PXE to boot gPXE which works with iscsi.
> I'm currently netbooting the cd image (pxe + nfs) but its read-only and a real pain having to reset the timezone and volume every time (FE is a laptop) - it lowers the WAF considerably.

I've never tried setting up a network boot. Isn't it slow to boot? If
you have to transfer a few GBs of data for the MythTV frontend image
doesn't that take a long time (even over a gigabit network it's going
to take some time to transfer all that data)?