[mythtv-users] Best options/howto for diskless frontends

[Joseph Fry]

> I had a backend crash and switched linux distro & upgraded mythtv in the
> process.  My backend is now running Ubuntu and mythtv .26.  I now need to
> upgrade my frontends, which are diskless.
>
> They are running gentoo, but was thinking of switching distros also.
> Anyone have a recommendation on a distro that supports diskless mythtv
> frontends.
>
> I have been struggling now for 2 days trying to get LTSP working
> (following these instructions:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Hardy/Diskless), but I
> seem to have many errors as it does not work.  Everything I find in google
> references onlder versions of Ubuntu (I am running 12.10) on the backend.
>
> My only requirement is that the frontends boot quickly.  The gentoo FE
> boot from power on to mythtv ready in about 45 seconds with no hibernation
> or sleep configured.
>
> A nice to have would be for the frontends to share the nfs partition
> (currently have 3 diskless fe).  My current setup takes a lot of disk as
> each FE has its own root nfs mount point.
>
> Thanks for any recommendations and references.
>

I went with iscsi and am thrilled with it.

I edited my motherboard bios to add the gpxe option rom, set my server up
as a target, edited my dhcp config... and away it went.  I had to use the
Ubuntu server disk to install the OS (because it has iscsi support) but it
was mostly painless.
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