I installed my FE with a disk, installed ubuntu, got everything working, then moved to diskless.<br><br>I followed the generic pxeboot instructions on some ubuntu site -- I can go find them again if you want.<br><br>Mine runs great. Although, I did have to setup a network swap device. I really need more memory for HD.
<br><br>-Dave<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:clemens@dwf.com">clemens@dwf.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:clemens@dwf.com">clemens@dwf.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have spent what little spare time I have this last week trying<br>to setup a diskless frontend for MythTV.
<br><br>It seemed like a good idea,- the less stuff I have in that box the<br>better, less heat generation means its going to be quieter, and I<br>have done Diskless machines with SunOS (tho that was probably<br>10 years ago or more), it just cant be that hard...
<br><br>Well, I followed the instructions out on the WEB for a diskless<br>Linux machine (actually under MythTV) and was very unhappy.<br>It seemed clear with their read-only root and writable changes<br>mounted to it, I was going to spend the rest of my life findint where
<br>various programs wrote scratch files that the author hadnt run<br>down.<br><br>So I said, how hard can this be?<br>After all Im only going to have ONE diskless machine, not many<br>so the read-only root with changes doesnt make any sense. Just
<br>put a read-write root out there and run with it. Well I got to 'step1'<br>and honest boot, with two tries. But from there on, I have yet to see<br>the rc scripts run... everything (say udev) depends on the existance
<br>or non-existance of /proc and /sys, and even when /proc is umounted<br>its still there and the scripts fail... No Idea how this works in a<br>real boot.<br><br>So, if anyone has tried, and succeeded with this, a diskless mythtv-frontend
<br>Id like to hear from you, and get some feeling for what you did.<br><br>Other than that, after I come back from USENIX, I guess Ill just<br>invest in a small, cheap, LOWPOWER (how do you find out about<br>that) disk, and give up on the diskless part.
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