[mythtv-users] Diskless frontend

[and]

I'm using a  sony airboard to watch my tv from myth and it's working 
fine using 802.11b.
I think they have added some strange custom QoS, but it show up as 
another network for other machines as well.

I guess you just have to slim down the stream to maybe 2/2.5mbs to be 
able to watch it over 802.11b and remember to keep your microwave and 
2.4ghz cordlessphone off... ;-)

rgds
anders

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 05:07 AM, jose rubio wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 19:40, 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.
>
> Pretty cool.  What type of LAN do you have?  I have 802.11b and I've
> been told that that is not going to be fast enough.  I'm looking into
> the 'g' but i'm not sure that one is going to cut it.
>
>
>
> -jose-
>
>
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