[mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Robert Kulagowski wrote:

> I have a number of frontends, each with local storage.  I have a 
> master backend which is already serving as a DHCP / TFTP / NFS server 
> to a MediaMVP and my frontends.
>
> What I'd like to do is take my existing frontends (one a Debian 
> unstable, one a FC2) and set them up as semi-diskless; boot off the 
> local storage, then switch to using NFS for everything else, at which 
> point I can spin-down the local hard drive, reducing noise.
>
> I'm not really interested in a complete diskless system, and the 
> various HOWTO's that I've seen pretty much revolve around netbooting / 
> PXE.
>
> Has anyone already done something similar?
>
I haven't done it but I'm getting ready to.  I am looking at doing a 
CD-ROM netboot image (basically the floppy netboot image written to a 
CD) and getting everything from NFS from that point.  I had tracked down 
a couple links in my research to date.

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.shtml
This seemed promising and talked a bit about the bootable CD-ROM

The netboot site has the basic HOWTO for making the floppy.  I believe 
that the same process holds true for the CD-ROM.

Kevin