[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

[Karl Dietz]

On 17.08.2012 03:49, Leigh Anthony wrote:
>> My frontend (which are also slave backends for commflag and
 >> transcoding) quite happily sit on a 6GB Partition. They run a
 >> standard uBuntu / Mythbuntu install with nothing trimmed down.
 >> I netboot them with iSCSI (so no actual hdd in the frontends,
 >> but still works like a machine with a HDD)
 >
> You don't happen to have a record of how you set up the iscsi?
 > The iscsi backend is easy enough, but I think I need to get PXE
 > to boot gPXE which works with iscsi.

> Or does anyone know how to add mythfrontend to LTSP fat client?

The basic install works like this:
   sudo ltsp-chroot -m
   apt-get install mythbuntu-desktop
   ^D
   sudo ltsp-update-image

but the integration is not as good as I'd like. It took a lot of
fiddling around to get anywhere near the mythbuntu OOTB setup.
(I'm on 12.04. The issues might be due to my ignorance but it was
way easier with 11.04 due to ready made packages and guides to follow :)

I'd love to just have the "let frontends netboot from this backend"
checkbox back in mythbuntu-control-centre.

 > I'm currently netbooting the cd image (pxe + nfs) but its read-only
 > and a real pain having to reset the timezone and volume every time
 > (FE is a laptop) - it lowers the WAF considerably.

you might just use minimyth as a netboot image, they have all the
details figured out already.

Regards,
Karl