[mythtv-users] Semi-OT - Netboot a mythfrontend?

[Steven]

PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> I know it's late the night before Thanksgiving in 
> the US...I've got a quick question.  I'm trying to 
> whip up a frontend to hook up to my main TV 
> tomorrow to show off MythTV to a bunch of 
> relatives.  I have a spare machine (just found 
> it yesterday, woohoo!), but it has no hard drive.  
> No biggie, I figure I can netboot it and keep it 
> quiet as well.  I've googled all over the place, 
> and I'm getting as far as the machine being able 
> to read its configuration/boot file.  Every place 
> on the 'net says that I need a boot image and an 
> initrd.  The problem is, I can't find one.  If 
> anyone has experience with doing net booting, 
> I'd really appreciate the help.  Oh, I'm running 
> FC2, kernel 2.6.8-1.521.  The target machine 
> is a P3 1ghz machine.  I figure it's good enough 
> to do frontend work...
> 
> Further to that, how do I build a myth frontend 
> that will load up over a net booted session?  I've 
> only ever done it via a local disk.  Come to think 
> of it, I've never done a netboot setup before 
> either, so I've got two battles to win before 
> tomorrow at 2pm...
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 
There is an exelent document from the guy(s) that made minimyth. It is 
about netbooting a epia-M but the general stuff would apply for any 
netboot system (DHCP, TFTP, isolinux, ....)
http://www.viaarena.com/Default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=52

Steven