Talk:Diskless Mac-Mini Howto

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Well.. just submitted an initial version of this Howto. Hope I didn't forget any important steps. I really hope some people will experiment with this, so I'm no longer the only fool running myth on a linux Mac Mini. It's really quite riskless, since the contents of the mini's harddisk will remain unchanged!

If you see errors in this page, or want to make additions, please go ahead, after all this is a Wiki;)

best regards, and good luck!

Bas Hulsken

It's a hard habit to break, but that's not really The Wiki Way. See Be Bold, and may I suggest adding the page to your Watchlist? --Baylink 15:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok, Point taken;) This is my first Wiki entry, I've added the page to my Watchlist, and changed the above. --Bhulsken 23:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)


Changelog

Removed the system-config-netboot dependency (redhat scripts included in diskless-0.1.tar.bz) this should make the script a bit less fedora core 4 dependend. In fact, I guess now it should work on fc3, and other RPM base distributions. Also adopted a version number. --Bhulsken 12:23, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Updated to diskless-0.2. This fixes the sound problems, and also builds a patched version of mythmusic. --Bas 12:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Your changelog would be very useful in the comments field for the actual changes

Your comments you are entering for changes are very useful. They would be ideal if you entered them in the comments field at the bottom when you make the edit to the main article. Then, you only need to read the history of the article to see your summary along with the option to read the actual difference. Basically, the way I monitor this article is reading all the diffs on Special:Recentchanges. I don't really depend on talk pages having accurate change logs. --Gregturn 13:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Hosting of the file

You may want to consider BitTorrent for distribution of the diskless image (assuming you have rights to do that). You can use Azureus on your machine to create a .torrent for the image, then upload the torrent to a site like http://www.monova.org/, seed the file for a while, publish the link to the .torrent on this page, as people download it using BitTorrent and other seeds come online, you may even be able to stop seeding yourself but the worst case is the bandwidth load from you is significantly reduced. --Kkuphal 17:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)