[mythtv-users] Diskless frontend

[and]

very nice!
I'd like to hear more. Both about the sw and hw side of the project.

I'm currently using a combined back-frontend on an epia m10k with a  
pvr250 card, but it's just too noisy to have in the living room because  
of the all the heat from the pvr250 and the 7200rpm hd, so your setup  
would be a very interresting alternative...

rgds
anders

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:40 PM, <adrian at lawsonlundell.com>  
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I love Mythtv I now watch all my television on myth. I was impressed  
> with 0.10 and am now running 0.11 and love all the new features, I  
> only use the official releases don't have the time to mess with cvs so  
> I won't complain about the minor glitches.
>
> I currently have a headless backend machine running gentoo with one  
> tuner in it that is also my media server, mp3s, videos, games etc. I  
> run the the front end from a diskless mobo with bultin vga lan audio  
> that boots from a USB memory stick. I used the knopmyth distro for the  
> frontend, once the kernel loads from the memory stick the root file  
> system is mounted from an nfs share on the server this was easy since  
> knoppix is already designed to be booted from read only medium and  
> there is still plenty of room on the USB memory stick for a persistent  
> home drive or whatever. It took a little while to work out the details  
> and I was surprised that I couldn't find anyone else doing this. It  
> seemed a lot easier to me than getting PXE or etherboot working and  
> setting up tftp and bootp or dhcp. The total cost for the front end  
> machine was about $130 so I might just put these all over the house.
>
> If anyone is interested in the details let me know.
>
> Adrian.
>
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