[mythtv-users] network boot / boot speed (WAS: Re: diskless Mythtv USB)

[gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)]

Chad wrote:
> If you choose to go NFS, it's a fast boot process.  I don't know how
> fast you are looking for, but a network booting machine on my network
> is maybe 2-5 seconds slower than my hard drive booting machines (of
> the similar layout/daemon starting, etc).

i'm definitely interested in this end of the setup of a diskless machine 
... for those on the list that are doing diskless frontends this way, 
did you follow the instructions in the wiki?  what kind of boot speeds 
do you see?  i haven't sat down and timed mine from the hard drive, but 
it's semi-decent i think ... running AMD Athlon64 3400+ with 512MB RAM 
... same setup on the backend (which i would be booting the frontend 
from unless that's a terrible idea), except that the backend has 1GB of 
RAM ...

oh, and both systems are running FC5 with Jarod's FC4 instructions 
more-or-less followed for the setup ...

on a side note, is there anything that can be done to speed up the boot 
process (whether it's over network or hard drive)?  i've trimmed down 
the services to as few as i think are necessary ... this is what i have 
at startup in runlevel 5:

[root at kryten ~]# chkconfig --list | grep 5:on | awk -F " " '{ print $1 }'
acpid
anacron
atd
autofs
cpuspeed
crond
haldaemon
kudzu
lirc
lm_sensors
messagebus
network
nfslock
ntpd
portmap
readahead
readahead_early
rpcgssd
rpcidmapd
smartd
sshd
syslog
xfs


thanks!
jesse