[mythtv-users] MiniMyth or PXE booting frontends on Mythbuntu

[Karl Dietz]

On 01.12.2013 09:10, IsmoT wrote:
>
>>  What is the advantage of MiniMyth over PXE boot?
>
> For me it is "must" thing. I can manage whole system with one image file. Frontends boot from network without worries about disk failure, corrupted filesystem or unplanned system changes etc. Booting allways gets new, fresh image that works. So, frontend user has no way to hassle system. Also, I can't imagine myself to maintain all frontends os:es separately.
>
> I wonder why there are no alternatives to minimyth because of it advantages? Or if there is I don't know about them. I remember that mythbuntu had some kind like this functionality, but does it exist anymore?

The basic LTS (Linux terminal server) functionality is still there and I 
have it running somehow. But it was not fun to set it up on the latest 
LTS (long term support) and the former integration as a one-click 
solution in mythbuntu-control-centre has bitrotted into uselessness :(

https://code.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/mythbuntu/mb-diskless
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-dev/mythbuntu/mythbuntu-control-centre/view/head:/debian/changelog#L260

It "just" needs someone to figure out the changes needed to track 5 
years of changes and integrate them back in... ;)

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1998470 on the 10.04 -> 
12.04 fallout.

Regards,
Karl

PS: my lts.conf
[default]
     DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=""
     KEEP_SYSTEM_SERVICES=lightdm