On June 7, 2005 08:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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? > > Pretty much any hardware you want. Obviously you need to have enough > ram, since a swap partition isn't normally used. the NIC needs to > support network booting. Most do now. I'm running on a xp-3200 w/ 512 > mb. Works great as a HD fe. > > > 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.? > > If you mount the root partition from an NFS mount, you can write to is > as usual. There is no change to the system. Everything is configured > the same. You can even build things on there. Your mount points are > jsut network mount points. >
I ran a diskless frontend until recently. It is really nice if when you get it working. Unfortunately, when I upgraded the motherboard on the frontend, PXE just stopped working altogether. Now I have a small hard drive that I boot from using syslinux. I still have my root drive on nfs, and I spin down the rather loud local drive during boot. Running diskless really is a great way to cut down the noise, and there is plenty of documentation out there on how to do it. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
