[mythtv-users] Building front end only machines (KnoppMyth ?)

[Paul Bender]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:53 -0500, stan wrote:
> I've finally gotten (what I hope) to be a stable backend machine set up.
> 
> Now, I want to build a couple of front end only machines. I used the latest
> KnoppMyth as the leverage to build the backend machine, and that went OK.
> 
> I'm able to boot the frontend machines from the KnoppMyth CD, and the work
> great, but I don't want to have to enter all the setup information every
> time I have to reboot these machines.
> 
> The KnoppMyth CD doesn't seem to offer a "front end only" install to gard
> dis. I though about making them slave backends, but since they have no
> capture cards, that seems a bit of a mistake.
> 
> Should I just do the install that way, and change the init.d setup to nt
> start the slave backend? Or will the front end be configured to look at the
> slave backend on that machine?

Have you considered using network boot to install and configure your
front end? Something like <http://wwww.linpvr.org>. In addition to
pulling the boot image from the server, it pulls the configuration from
the server as well.