[mythtv-users] Best options/howto for diskless frontends

Per Hatlevik jakeisawake at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 20:08:46 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Michael Drons <mdrons at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had a backend crash and switched linux distro & upgraded mythtv in the
> process.  My backend is now running Ubuntu and mythtv .26.  I now need to
> upgrade my frontends, which are diskless.
>
> They are running gentoo, but was thinking of switching distros also.  Anyone
> have a recommendation on a distro that supports diskless mythtv frontends.
>
> I have been struggling now for 2 days trying to get LTSP working (following
> these instructions:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Hardy/Diskless), but I seem
> to have many errors as it does not work.  Everything I find in google
> references onlder versions of Ubuntu (I am running 12.10) on the backend.
>
> My only requirement is that the frontends boot quickly.  The gentoo FE boot
> from power on to mythtv ready in about 45 seconds with no hibernation or
> sleep configured.
>
> A nice to have would be for the frontends to share the nfs partition
> (currently have 3 diskless fe).  My current setup takes a lot of disk as
> each FE has its own root nfs mount point.
>
> Thanks for any recommendations and references.
>
> Mike
>

minimyth (http://www.minimyth.org/) is the easiest way to accomplish a
diskless fe. so that's what i would recommend. unfortunately they have
not released a 0.26 build, the latest is 0.25.2 so probably not useful
for you but good to know about for the future....


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