I would like to run my mythtv *frontend* machine diskless, partly to
reduce the noise and partly because I want to learn how to do it (so I'm
not really interested in using quiet seagate drives suspended from rubber
cord, etc.)
I have read the network boot/exotic root howto (not sure of the exact
name) and other docs, which are great starters. But if anyone has
actually done this, I would appreciate some specific tips.
Specific questions I have are:
- are you making extensive use of ramdisks or is everything nfs mounted?
- how much ram do you need? I currently have 128M.
- What steps were taken to build a minimal image (like not installing all
of KDE)
- How's the performance?
- What distribution did you use or did you roll your own?
Hopefully once everything has been started up actual "disk" accesses would
be mimimal. My home network is switched 100Mb so I'm not too worried about
network bandwidth (should I be?).
Thanks,
Larry
reduce the noise and partly because I want to learn how to do it (so I'm
not really interested in using quiet seagate drives suspended from rubber
cord, etc.)
I have read the network boot/exotic root howto (not sure of the exact
name) and other docs, which are great starters. But if anyone has
actually done this, I would appreciate some specific tips.
Specific questions I have are:
- are you making extensive use of ramdisks or is everything nfs mounted?
- how much ram do you need? I currently have 128M.
- What steps were taken to build a minimal image (like not installing all
of KDE)
- How's the performance?
- What distribution did you use or did you roll your own?
Hopefully once everything has been started up actual "disk" accesses would
be mimimal. My home network is switched 100Mb so I'm not too worried about
network bandwidth (should I be?).
Thanks,
Larry