Robert Denier wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:14 -0500, Phill Wiggin wrote:
Out of curiosity, why does your setup "suck[s] for mythfrontend"? I was
planning on setting up a similar system (to get rid of the HD in my
My diskless system works.. Its gentoo based. I don't have it auto
loading X or even have lirc configured on it yet since, well, I just
haven't spent the time on it. (That and tapping my right control key on
my keyboard switches to that computer anyway...) I did plug in an ati
RF remote and compiled that module, but that was a stop gap until I got
around to doing the full lirc setup which I'll eventually clone to other
systems..
I'm glad to hear your setup works.. it sounds like mine. ;)
I'm running Gentoo and already have lirc working on the current FE. I
was going to just tar up the FE's HD and toss it on my fileserver and
PXE boot (not sure if it'll work out that easily, but I figure it's
worth a shot).
One irritation on my setup is the board doesn't survive a reboot without
turning off the power for ~10 seconds first.
I think I can deal with that. Thanks for the heads-up.
Basically, if your going diskless expect more work to set it up, and you
likely want 512MB of ram. For the 'Ideal' diskless setup, if you can
find a motherboard with a gigabit ethernet jack that will boot diskless
it might improve performance a bit. Basically it might save a few
seconds here and there... (Mine is just 100BT).
ATM, I've only got 256M in my FE, but I can remedy that easily enough.
My mobo only has 100BT onboard, but I can move it up to GigE by getting
"creative" with a half-height tech-tool*.
Of course if you just want a quiet system you could possibly use a
little laptop drive and pretty much do the same thing..
-Robert
I considered the laptop HD, but figured I'd remove a point of failure
rather than adding an additional one. :)
Thanks for the info,
Phill W.
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* tech-tool - Backplate cover screwed into place where you don't have
expansion cards installed. Various usages, each more suprising than the
last.
I spent a few years doing Tech support (and managing the poor folks that
build/repaired computers). Our technicians used them in all kinds of
crazy ways...
Need a flathead screwdriver? "Tech-tool"...
Need a prybar to get that floppy loose? "Tech-tool"...
Need something to fish that screwdriver out from under the motherboard?
"Tech-tool!"
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