[mythtv-users] How does the diskless setup work?

Egeekial egeekial at comcast.net
Tue Jun 7 20:30:41 UTC 2005


I realized that was somewhat redundant. I forgot to throw in putting the 
whole OS on the CF card read-only instead of booting off the network.

Egeekial wrote:

> Has anyone tried using a compactflash card for a drive? They make 
> IDE->Compactflash converters. This wouldn't exactly be "diskless", but 
> it would be "hard drive-less".
>
>> On 6/7/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>>> Michael Carland wrote:
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>>>> One idea if PXE doesn't work, or you don't have PXE, and you still
>>>> want a silent machine, would be to boot from flash (or even floppy). I
>>>> have a CompactFlash to IDE adapter, that can be used to load a kernel,
>>>> and the rest could be loaded from network. If the motherboard supports
>>>> booting from a USB drive, this would do the same thing. You could even
>>>> load the kernel from a floppy, although when I used to do this the
>>>> same floppy sitting in the same drive for months on end would need to
>>>> be replaced once or twice a year. Not exactly diskless in that case,
>>>> but other than 30 seconds at boot, there is no drive noise.
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>>> Or, throw in a DVD drive and boot from CD/DVD, and you can play DVD's
>>> with the frontend, also.
>>>
>>> Mike
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