Okay then, in the case of NFS then, it would be to my advantage to do
the gigabit networking that I was thinking was pointless for a mythtv
network then, since everything is initially ran from network, from
what I understand?
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:02:44 -0700, Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
> > them locally in memory?
> All PXE boot does it bring the kernel in. Once the actually kernel that
> is going to be used is loaded, the PXE bootloader is gone.
>
> I'm not sure how NFS handles caching. Programs that are running have
> their active parts sitting in memory. A peek at 'vmstat' on my running
> epia mythfrontend shows:
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
> id wa
> 0 0 0 185596 0 23460 0 0 98 0 151 138 7 0
> 92 0
>
> So, there's some caching going on.
>
> It's a good idea to use a ramdisk for /tmp.
> I have in /etc/fstab:
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,size=4M,mode=777 0 0
>
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
> > them locally in memory?
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:13:36 -0700, Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > > > Where have you been looking about PXE booting? I am considering
> > > > setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to
> > > > go the gentoo route with it:
> > > >
> > > PXE booting was a snap for me using gentoo.
> > > Steps:
> > > set up dhcp server and have frontend boot pxelinux
> > > compile a kernel that does uses nfs root partition
> > > copy gentoo stage 2 to directory where root is mounted
> > > on big desktop, chroot to that directory follow the gentoo howto for
> > > building the system ('emerge system' etc.)
> > >
> > >
> >
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> Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
>
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