[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Knopmyth on USB drive

Bob spam at homeurl.co.uk
Thu Feb 2 05:56:21 UTC 2006


Bryan Halter wrote:
> I'm looking to make a mostly diskless frontend where knopmyth would boot 
> off of a USB key then NFS mount myth's ~ which would be shared between 
> multiple machines.  I realize knopmyth can run in frontend mode directly 
> from a CD,  How do I copy the boot sector from the CD to the USB key?  
> Is there a better way to do this?

I was tinkering with a similar idea of having the /boot partition on a 
thumb drive and the rest on NFS mounts as a kind of poor / lazy mans 
network boot.

All my computers are being shipped at the moment so I can’t test the 
theory at the moment.

Have a look at
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root.html
and
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.html

good luck and let us know how it goes.


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