[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

[Michael Watson]

On 17/08/2012 4:09 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>> You don't happen to have a record of how you set up the iscsi?  The iscsi backend is easy enough, but I think I need to get PXE to boot gPXE which works with iscsi.
>> I'm currently netbooting the cd image (pxe + nfs) but its read-only and a real pain having to reset the timezone and volume every time (FE is a laptop) - it lowers the WAF considerably.
> I've never tried setting up a network boot. Isn't it slow to boot? If
> you have to transfer a few GBs of data for the MythTV frontend image
> doesn't that take a long time (even over a gigabit network it's going
> to take some time to transfer all that data)?
>
Havent ever timed it, but its boot speed seems faster than it was when 
booting the 500GB SATA drive that use to be in the system.