Paul, excellent write up! As far as hardware is concerned what are we talking about here? M/B, ram, video, NIC? What's common for this type of setup?
Since this is run from memory changes to the Myth FE would be temporary so I assume you modify the 'init script' to make your modifications to Myth, themes, etc.? AJM, On 6/6/05, Paul Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Schmitt wrote: > > Can someone explain to me how the diskless setup works? I'm guessing > > it's something along the lines of a ramdisk... if so, how do you boot > > into mythtv? > > Diskless systems boot over the network. Just like local boot, network > boot requires a boot loader, a kernel and a root file system. However, > in the case of network boot, these are retrieved over the network rather > than from a local disk. > > The computer must have support for network boot. PXE (Pre-boot eXecution > Environment) is a common method for supporting network boot. > > When the computer power's up, it uses bootp to obtain an IP address > along with the location of the boot loader. The location of the boot > loader consists of a TFTP server IP address and the path to the boot > loader file on the TFTP server. > > The computer downloads and executes the boot loader. A good PXE boot > loader is pxelinux <http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php>. > > The boot loader downloads the kernel. > > The boot loader may also download a compressed ram disk image (initrd). > This image can contain the root file system. If the root file system > downloaded, then the file system will be in memory. > > The root files system may also be mounted using NFS. In this case, it is > not necessary to download the root file system. > > The /usr file system may be included in as part of the root file system > or may be mounted during init. In general, it is easiest to include the > /usr file system as part of the root file system. > > MythTV and other programs are typically in /usr, so once /usr is > available, MythTV can be run. In order to make MythTV start > automatically at boot, xinitrc can be configured to start mythfrontend, > and xinit can be run as the last step of the init script. > > MiniMyth <http://linpvr.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=8> consists of a > kernel and a compressed ram file system (cramfs) root file system image. > The init script included in the root file system starts automatically > starts MythTV as described above. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
