stan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:28:14PM -0600, Ryan A. Carris wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:57:41 -0600, Robert Kulagowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a number of frontends, each with local storage. I have a master
backend which is already serving as a DHCP / TFTP / NFS server to a
MediaMVP and my frontends.
What I'd like to do is take my existing frontends (one a Debian
unstable, one a FC2) and set them up as semi-diskless; boot off the
local storage, then switch to using NFS for everything else, at which
point I can spin-down the local hard drive, reducing noise.
I'm not really interested in a complete diskless system, and the various
HOWTO's that I've seen pretty much revolve around netbooting / PXE.
Has anyone already done something similar?
I must misunderstand your question, it seems to easy.
Knoppmyth will boot a frontend setup off of the CD, and then connect
to your backend. http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html#frontend
I experimented with Knoppymyth recently. I was really impressed with
it. It worked out of the box, and had just about everything that my
system needed.
But KnoppMyth won't autoboot off the CD, it requires that you put
in some paramters. Also a true diskless system will not require a
CD drive at all, and using a CD to run your system will use up the CD
drive pretty quickly.
It'd sure be nice if there was a way for a mythfrontend to discover all
the settings needed on a network. Something like
Rendevous/ZeroConf/UPnP. Does anyone who runs KnoppMyth in this way
know what all the settings are that are asked for on boot? Is it just
the address of the master backend or are there more?
Kevin
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