Uwe Heinrich wrote: > > Hello ML, > > does anybody already as a diskless VDR running? > > I'm thinking of a mini-linux on CompactFlash and the /video on NFS or SAMBA. > Is such a thing running somewhere? > > Or do you think booting from lan is easier and / or cheaper? since yesterdy my vdr box boots from lan perfectly and it wasn't that difficult. at the moment it works like this: bootprom is loaded from floppy (~30KB) (no eprom at the momement) bootprom initilizes NIC and fetches ip address and name of kernel via dhcp kernel gets loaded via tftp kernel boots and mounts / over nfs kernel starts init which is only a script that loads the modules, starts lircd, vdr and a bash for playing around a bit. at tha moment i only copied my old dvb drivers and old vdr 0.7x to the nfs-root dir cause i couldn't get the new drivers to work :-( but my new setup will allow upgrading kernel, drivers and vdr without touching the settopbox directly and this is very cool! :-) if you decide to do it this way, you can ask me for details ... so long ... clemens -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
