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

Dan Littlejohn dan.littlejohn at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 20:59:55 UTC 2005


I picked this case.  http://www.ahanix.com/dvine5.html

Running a pentium 1.8 with a zalman 6800 and you cannot hear the
machine.  If it does any heavy lifting, it spins up fans.  I have only
had that happen when upgrading the system.

Dan

On 6/7/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON <pwilliamson at mandtbank.com> wrote:
> I use a couple different cases.
> 
> Original - IBM NetVista with a 5200.  Black, sits right
> under the TV, and most people don't event realize it's
> there.  I took out the HD, replaced the CPU fan, and
> the 5200 has a giant heat sink on it.  The thing is so
> quiet I hear the buzz of my TV speakers in my family
> room during low passages in Holst's "The Planets."
> 
> Newest - Pretty sweet case, mobo supports PXE, so the
> only thing I had to worry about was a video card.
> Got another 5200 with a huge heat sink and picked up
> a Zalman CPU cooler and a silent PSU.  When I put my
> ear right up to the unit with the case off, it's hard to
> tell it is on.  I just ordered a pvr250 to put into this
> and finally figure out how to get it controlling the
> digital cable box I have so I have access to my other
> 100 premium channels...so I guess technically
> it will be a diskless frontend and backend as well.
> 
> 2 mvpmcs - ultimate in quiet and netbooting too.
> Now that liveTV is working, I can do wireless live
> digital cable to my outdoor patio!  Woohoo!
> 
> Paul
> 
> >>> "A JM" <vbtalent at gmail.com> 06/07/05 4:22 PM >>>
> So, what kind of cases are you guy's using? if it's diskless and
> fanless as in the VIA EPIA ME6000 or SP8000E (I'm not sure what this
> is HD Commell LV-667) you'll need video card height in order to use
> decoding on a card correct? So, are they mostly beastly ugly PC's or
> something more attractive?
> 
> My backend is running an XP3200 with 512meg and a couple of 200gig
> drives in a LVM so I'm assuming it could handle the front end?
> 
> I'm currently finishing off an XBOX front end and although it's not
> unattractive I'd like something attractive and quite.
> 
> Thanks for all the great information and feedback.
> 
> AJM,
> 
> 
> 
> 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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