[mythtv-users] OT: Booting Hard Drive-less Machine

[Bryan Halter]

Chad wrote:
> On 3/24/06, Bryan Halter <bhalter at armyofpenguins.com> wrote:
>   
>> What I did was boot off a Gentoo Live CD, mount an NFS share, then do
>> the Gentoo install as normal.  When that was done I put the boot loader
>> on a USB drive and followed the instructions for booting with an NFS
>> root. This seems easier than PXE booting as it creates fewer
>> dependancies on the network.  just my $0.02.
>>
>> --Bryan
>>     
>
> Excellent, thanks!  I also thought of going the USB drive route, just
> getting like a 1GB cruzer, booting off that, and NFS mounting /usr and
> such (probably a NFS root like you said).  I opted out of that option
> for cost.  I'm not using an HD because I don't want to buy one, I've
> got a fan in the box so noise is not much of an issue.  I don't need
> or want a 200GB drive for this frontend machine, but a 40GB drive
> costs 60 bucks, where a 200GB costs 80.  I've got plenty of storage
> already (750GB) I just figured I'd use some of it to be root ( / ) for
> systems.  I want a 40GB drive for 10 bucks, more in line with the
> cost/GB.  Anyway...  I do appreciate the follow up!  I'll either stop
> being cheap, or figure this PXE thing out.  That or go with the LiveCD
> thing I originally thought of doing.  PXE is on the top of the list
> though, followed by LiveCD (DVD actually) and finally, breaking down
> and getting a USB cruzer (small stick or some sort) or full on SATA
> harddrive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chad
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>   
Just for the record my kernel is booting off of a $10 128MB USB drive. 
The NFS root runs off of 1.8GB of the storage in the backend over a
simple 10/100 switched network.
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