[mythtv-users] Diskless frontend & debian

[Robert Kulagowski]

Here's how I'm configured.  Works just fine for my purposes.

[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$ ls -l /tftpboot/
total 3772
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1914320 Apr  8  2006 fe1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   13100 Apr  9  2006 pxelinux.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug 13 08:49 pxelinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1914320 Apr  8  2006 vmlinuz-2.6.15.1

[mythtv at mbe ~]$ cd /tftpboot/
[mythtv at mbe tftpboot]$ cd pxelinux.cfg/
[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$ ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 Aug 13 08:49 C0A80A33
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146 Apr  8  2006 C0A80A37
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 Apr  8  2006 default~

[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$ cat C0A80A33
LABEL fe1
   KERNEL fe1
   APPEND ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.10.52:/nfsroot/fe1,tcp,nfsvers=3 
root=/dev/nfs init=/sbin/init

DEFAULT fe1

[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$ ls -l /nfsroot
total 2783460
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2847468032 Apr  9  2006 backup.cpio
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root       4096 Apr  9  2006 fe1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       4096 Jul  2  2006 fe2
[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$ ls -l /nfsroot/fe1
total 88
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov 25 13:59 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 boot
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 12288 Apr  9  2006 dev
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 dvb
drwxr-xr-x 107 root root  4096 Feb  4 19:19 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 home
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 initrd
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 mythtv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 opt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 proc
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 Aug  7  2006 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 29  2006 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 srv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 sys
drwxrwxrwt  10 root root  4096 Feb  7 07:38 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 usr
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  4096 Apr  9  2006 var

[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$ cat /etc/exports
/var/myth/ *(rw,sync)
/nfsroot/fe1 fe1(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
[mythtv at mbe pxelinux.cfg]$