<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">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.<br>
<br>They are running gentoo, but was thinking of switching distros also. Anyone have a recommendation on a distro that supports diskless mythtv frontends. <br><br>I have been struggling now for 2 days trying to get LTSP working (following these instructions: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Hardy/Diskless" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Hardy/Diskless</a>), 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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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. <br>
<br>Thanks for any recommendations and references.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I went with iscsi and am thrilled with it.</div><div><br></div><div>I edited my motherboard bios to add the gpxe option rom, set my server up as a target, edited my dhcp config... and away it went. I had to use the Ubuntu server disk to install the OS (because it has iscsi support) but it was mostly painless. </div>
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