[mythtv-users] Help Diskless frontend
Robert Denier
denier at umr.edu
Mon Oct 31 11:29:08 EST 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:14 -0500, Phill Wiggin wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why does your setup "suck[s] for mythfrontend"? I was
> planning on setting up a similar system (to get rid of the HD in my
My diskless system works.. Its gentoo based. I don't have it auto
loading X or even have lirc configured on it yet since, well, I just
haven't spent the time on it. (That and tapping my right control key on
my keyboard switches to that computer anyway...) I did plug in an ati
RF remote and compiled that module, but that was a stop gap until I got
around to doing the full lirc setup which I'll eventually clone to other
systems..
One irritation on my setup is the board doesn't survive a reboot without
turning off the power for ~10 seconds first.
Basically, if your going diskless expect more work to set it up, and you
likely want 512MB of ram. For the 'Ideal' diskless setup, if you can
find a motherboard with a gigabit ethernet jack that will boot diskless
it might improve performance a bit. Basically it might save a few
seconds here and there... (Mine is just 100BT).
Of course if you just want a quiet system you could possibly use a
little laptop drive and pretty much do the same thing..
-Robert
> frontend), but if your problems are the norm, I may have to rethink that
> plan...
>
> Phill
>
> Adam Skinner wrote:
>
> >Hi ,
> >
> >I would like to setup a diskless mythtv frontend. I have a working
> >gentoo based installation working so far (pxe loader , nfs share based
> >kernel) , but this sucks for mythfrontend.
> >
> >I noticed in an earlier post, someone mentioned they had something
> >similar using knoppymyth. Please could you explain a bit more in
> >detail.
> >
> >Any other suggesstions?? Im thinking ramdisk may help.
> >
> >A
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