[mythtv-users] Best options/howto for diskless frontends

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Mon Nov 26 16:54:34 UTC 2012


On 26/11/2012 12:51, Per Jessen wrote:
> Paul Gardiner wrote:
>
>> On 26/11/2012 09:33, Per Jessen wrote:
>>> Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2) To use opensuse because it's the linux I best know.
>>>
>>> I have servers on openSUSE that boot with root on NFS, it works.  I
>>> had to generate the initrd separately though.
>>
>> That's good to know. Any hints on the generation of a suitable initrd?
>> I'm guessing that's going to be the difficult bit.
>
> I think the main thing is adding the "nfs" feature when you run
> mkinitrd:  "mkinitrd -f nfs".

Ah right, so there's a program called mkinitrd! :-) That's probably
the main thing I needed to know.

I'm think I pretty much have the information I need to have a go
at this.

Cheers,
	Paul.


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