[mythtv-users] network booting/diskless mythfrontend box

[Steve Davidson]

There are a few companies that sell cheap IDE-CF adapters:

http://adis.ca/store/cfdisk.php

The cfdisk.5d plugs directly in to the IDE header, and setup is
trivial.  I am using one of these in an LRP router, sounds like it might
work well for your purposes.

Keep us informed - I'm thinking of putting together a mAtx EPIA box for
my frontend, would love to hear how this works for you.




On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 22:44, Joe Byrne wrote:
> Another, perhaps more complex option, is to boot off a flash (IDE or
> possibly USB) drive.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wally" <wally at satx.rr.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 6:16 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] network booting/diskless mythfrontend box
> 
> 
> > I really want to go diskless with my frontend, but I can't find a good
> > microatx motherboard that will pxe boot. I guess I could buy a nic card
> > and an eeprom, but I would rather have it be supported on board. I was
> > using an asus a7n266-vm which turns out to have been a horrible purchase
> > because I can't underclock or undervolt it to run silent and the bios
> > sucks and won't boot over the network. I also tried a pcchips m758lmr
> > board and put linuxbios on it, but the cpu usage even on a celeron
> > 1.2ghz was too much to run mythfrontend. For some reason on that board X
> > would take up 30-50% cpu when playing video - the board did network boot
> > though.
> > So...
> > Can someone recommend a good microatx board to run in my frontend? I
> > have both an xp 1700 and a celeron 1.2 laying around so intel/amd
> > doesn't matter. All I care about is build in network booting. I am
> > posting this hoping someone has personal experience with diskless myth.
> >
> >  Thanks all!
> >
> > --
> >
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