[mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?

[Rudy Zijlstra]

stan wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:35:21PM -0500, john roberts wrote:
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>>I've thought about doing this also.  I'm wondering why you wouldn't want to go diskless.  Why not boot of the net?
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>>Is it the boot-up time you're concerned about?
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>Have you made a diksless frontend work? If os, have you any pointers to a
>good HOWTO?
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I have a diskless frontend based on slackware. Made netbooting work at 
least half a year ago based on the PXE documentation. Slackware is 
pretty easy to make netbooting working. Once you have the setup to get a 
kernel booted from the network its easy. You make a basic installation 
on a HD and then copy that onto the file server. Once there you can 
extend using the netbooted kernel.


Cheers,

Rudy