[mythtv-users] Need to quiet my frontend...

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Mar 25 19:11:17 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:06 -0700, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
> James Pifer wrote:
> > I have a frontend system in the bedroom. It's a slim form factor Compaq
> > D5S/P1.7 running mythdora 5. The system is fairly quiet except for the
> > hard drive. What are people doing to quiet these down? 
> > 
> > I tried installing the system to a flash drive, but the install keeps
> > failing. Not sure it will run well enough off a flash drive anyway. 
> > 
> > The other possibility is running off the network. Anybody doing this
> > successfully?
> 
> I just use minimyth and boot from the network.  It works great for me. 
> I pulled the hard drive out of the frontend and have never regretted it.

I'm going to look at minimyth. You have it working with remote? Right
now I'm using an MCE USB IR. Works great with mythdora. Simple to setup
too. 

Thanks,
James



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