[mythtv-users] Edit mode question

[Jason Ramey]

Seems like a bad idea from a purely bandwidth standpoint.. 100mbits/sec
only stretches so far :).. you'll be hammering your switch pretty hard,
and congesting your network if any other machines on it use your storage
box .

But if you insist :):

- Ramdisks != needed.. I think nfs handles caching.
- More ram == better.
- If your mainboard supports the intel boot rom, you can run your os off
of your server (therefore disk-on-chip isn't even needed).  Check google
for how to work with this.
- Haven't played with it myself, but it sounds fairly do-able.  Redhat
8.0 handles net-boot beautifully, tho.


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Larry Matter
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:06 PM
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] Anyone running a diskless frontend?


I would like to run my mythtv *frontend* machine diskless, partly to
reduce the noise and partly because I want to learn how to do it (so I'm
not really interested in using quiet seagate drives suspended from
rubber cord, etc.)

I have read the network boot/exotic root howto (not sure of the exact
name) and other docs, which are great starters.  But if anyone has
actually done this, I would appreciate some specific tips.

Specific questions I have are:
-  are you making extensive use of ramdisks or is everything nfs
mounted?
-  how much ram do you need?  I currently have 128M.
-  What steps were taken to build a minimal image (like not installing
all of KDE)
-  How's the performance?
-  What distribution did you use or did you roll your own?

Hopefully once everything has been started up actual "disk" accesses
would be mimimal. My home network is switched 100Mb so I'm not too
worried about network bandwidth (should I be?).

Thanks,
Larry


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