[mythtv-users] Whole house Myth setup

[Yan-Fa Li]

Not if you booted them via NFS and kept the OS centrally, having them 
share binaries.  That's the principle of the LTSP (Linux Terminal Server 
Project).  LAN card autoboots, does bootp and then pulls a linux kernel 
and minimal ramdisk via tftp.  After it gets going it mounts the root 
partition off the server via NFS and bob's your uncle.

Yan

Mark wrote:
> I wonder if you could just boot with the compact flash, and yank down a 
> copy of the mythfrontend from the master backend, so that when you 
> updated the mythfrontend on the backend, you updated all the boxes in 
> the house?  that way you'd never have to mess with the frontend again?  
> One thing keeping me from putting a couple more frontends in the house 
> is that I'd have to install the new version on each machine every time.  
> That's getting to be a lot of admin.