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

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Karl Dietz
<dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org> wrote:
> 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.

That used to be the case, but the developer who wrote that MCC plugin
stopped working on it (or I think that was the case, something like
that). Feel free to write the plugin (that comment is the bane of OS
community developed software I'm afraid)