[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu-diskless - can a client survive a server reboot?

[Paul Bender]

On 1/26/2011 7:56 AM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> I tried doing this a few years ago. In the older kernels, the
> forcedeth driver for the nvidia nforce system had a bug that would not
> allow it to survive a suspend-to-ram, so you had to unload the network
> driver before suspending. With a netboot system, I'm sure you can
> imagine the result of taking your network connection offline (same as
> the OP's problem). My first attempt was to try and figure out how to
> do the ramdisk approach, but I could never get it working. After about
> a week without success, I gave up, bought some $2 PCI network cards
> off ebay, and that solved the problem until the driver was fixed in a
> newer kernel.

All the files needed to run a MythTV frontend and slave backend 
(including mplayer for MythStream and the proprietary NVIDIA drivers) 
result in a image that is about 100MB and takes less than 10s to 
download. As a result, I find it easier to include all the files rather 
than attempting to figure out exactly which ones are needed.