[mythtv-users] PXE Network Boot

[Mitch Gore]

>  > > The reason is that the adapter has already been brought up. If you
>  > > take it down, you've lost your connection to the filesystem.
>  > >
>
>  The above is exactly right - for a Debian system.  Possibly also for any
>  Debian-derived system (e.g. ubuntu).  But Fedora sets up networking
>  differently than this.
>
>  For Debian users, you can also put this into /etc/network/interfaces:
>
>   auto eth0
>   iface eth0 inet manual
>
>  That essentially changes eth0 operation into a noop.  The reason this
>  might be desirable over simply omitting eth0 is that other parts of the
>  Debian boot process might depend on eth0 actually being up'ed first -
>  triggering the various nearby if-up.d scripts.  I hit this problem when
>  trying to set up another NFS client mount.
>
>  I've been writing up a long page describing all the fun I've had in
>  setting up diskless PXE-booted read-only NFS-rooted frontends.  The
>  writeup isn't finished, but the trick above is in there.  The URL for
>  the page is here:
>
>  http://www.isely.net/mythtv_setup.html
>
>   -Mike
>


No idea on Fedora tho?