[mythtv-users] Questions on PXE booting a frontend

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Aug 4 16:22:10 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:14:58 Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > 850MB huh? I recently tried to install Linux on a very old 20GB drive,
> > thinking that would be enough.
> >
> > The install failed with "no more room on device".
> >
> > Turned out it was a 20MB drive, must have been older than I thought. I
> > should have realized that when I saw "Conner" on the drive.
>
> I'm impressed you were able to find a compatible interface card for
> the drive.  Most 20MB drives manufactured would pre-date the IDE
> standard.

Nope, standard parallel IDE interface, though not the lastest incarnation of 
it.

I recall buying 20-80 MB IDE drives in the late 80's, the next step from the 
ST-502 units (often incorrectly called MFM).


-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org


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