<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Brian Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briandlong@gmail.com">briandlong@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Tom Lichti<<a href="mailto:redpepperracing@gmail.com">redpepperracing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have been running a frontend on an 8GB USB flash drive for almost a<br>
> year with no issues. My ION box (when it ever gets here) will do the<br>
> same.<br>
><br>
> Tom<br>
<br>
</div>I've toyed with netboot using GPXE and since it supports HTTP<br>
downloads of the initrd, it is lightning fast compared to standard<br>
TFTP. Playing around with MiniMyth and a slow VIA CPU, it boots in<br>
1-2 minutes which only happens if suspend/resume fails for some<br>
reason. I would plan to do the same should I purchase the ION<br>
motherboard.<br>
<br>
Has anyone heard of other manufacturers releasing ION-based<br>
motherboards or is it a one man show for the foreseeable future?<br>
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</font></blockquote><div><br>I'm very happy with my net boot machines.<br>The "overhead" of a network file system is very insignificant, since everything is in memory anyways. And everything that myth does is over the network. All you need is enough ram, 2 GB is plenty, so swapping is not really required, although I have used swap over NFS, or nbd previously.<br>
<br>As I've stated before, my ion netboots (pxelinux) and powers up into myth in 65 seconds. the tftp stage is not even measurable. <br></div></div><br>