[mythtv-users] boot off compact flash

[Stroller]

On 23 Apr 2007, at 11:12, btsglw wrote:

>> Can anyone who is booting off compact flash tell me how they
>> "partition" their system, please?
>>
>> Do you keep the sql database (/var/mysql or whatever) on the flash
>> drive, or just the o/s files?
>>
>> I have a 4gig CFcard kicking around here which I thought to use for
>> this, but it was quite a cheap one, and probably quite slow...
>>
>> I plan to use Gentoo for my MythTV system, rather than the MiniMyth
>> mentioned in the article you link to...
>
> ...
> The cf card in minimyth is used to load the system into memory and
> then connect to the mythbackend on a separate pc.  For a normal
> backend I don't see what the advantage to using a cf card would be,
> but maybe that's just my short-sightedness :)

The system is to be a combined FE / BE.

As I understand it is advisable not to put / on the same hard-drive  
as a video store.
Am I wrong?

Because if I need to put / on a separate hard-drive then my choices are:
- buy an 80gig hard-drive (the smallest currently available new)  
for / and leave it mostly empty
- find an old 20gig - 40gig drive lying around & use that.

In either of these cases it seems to me that having two hard-drives  
running will be noisier than having merely one. An older drive that I  
had lying around is likely to be older and particularly noisy!!

Using a CFcard would therefore seem to reduce noise somewhat. I can  
accept having a single hard-drive operating when I am watching TV,  
but I would prefer to reduce the number of other components making  
noise.

Stroller.