I use, and have been very impressed by MiniMyth.<br><br>It's only as slow as your hardware, and can load the OS as a RAM disk either locally or over a network. Once booted, everything is local...OS and Myth are in RAM.
<br><br>I prefer to load MiniMyth to a compact flash card using a USB cardreader on my desktop system, then plug the CF card into my frontend using a compact flash to IDE adapter.<br><br>-Pete<br><a href="http://www.mythpvr.com">
http://www.mythpvr.com</a> - <a href="http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/minimyth">http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/minimyth</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich West</b> <<a href="mailto:Rich.West@wesmo.com">
Rich.West@wesmo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I came across the diskless how-to on the Wiki and, while I have the
<br>entire infrastructure in place (I build both windows and Linux boxes via<br>PXE booting), I immediately thought "hey, that would definitely be QUIET".<br><br>However, the question that goes unanswered in the wiki is about
<br>performance. Since the entire system is loading and running off of the<br>network (I've got cat-5 wired) *and* mythtv is also going over that same<br>network, doesn't that beat up on the performance? Especially since swap
<br>would also be on an NFS mounted volume...<br><br>I'd be interested to hear about people's experiences with MythTV and a<br>diskless frontend to see if it would be a viable configuration or if it<br>is just a pipe dream..
<br><br>Thanks!<br>-Rich<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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