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

[stan]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:28:14PM -0600, Ryan A. Carris wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:57:41 -0600, Robert Kulagowski <bob at smalltime.com> 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 must misunderstand your question, it seems to easy.
> Knoppmyth will boot a frontend setup off of the CD, and then connect
> to your backend.   http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html#frontend
> 
> I experimented with Knoppymyth recently.  I was really impressed with
> it.  It worked out of the box, and had just about everything that my
> system needed.


But KnoppMyth won't autoboot off the CD, it requires that you put
in some paramters. Also a true diskless system will not require a
CD drive at all, and using a CD to run your system will use up the CD
drive pretty quickly.

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