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

James Oltman cnlibmyth at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 20:35:27 UTC 2005


They also make risers for AGP vid crds and PCI slots that are at 90
degree angles so you could get a really thin case (1U) and cram
everything in there.  That would be nice.

On 6/7/05, Egeekial <egeekial at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Michael Carland wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 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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