On Wednesday 20 April 2005 08:39, Stef Coene wrote: > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 15:45, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > > > Well, I'm booting from CF and mounting /usr and the MythVideo library > > > over nfs, but streaming actual TV playback. > > > > I've got an 8MB CF and a CF to IDE adapter. I've got a machine > > currently running FC3, and it's noisy. I can't pxeboot the machine, and > > I'd like to get the hard drive out of there for noise reasons. > > > > Is it just a matter of doing a fdisk / mkfs on the CF device, copying > > over /boot, copying the contents of the existing drive over to the NFS > > server and changing /etc/fstab to have the mount point of / to be over > > NFS?
Definitely not sufficient, since /etc/fstab is on /. A bit of a chicken and egg problem there. ;-) > You have to follow the diskless client guides you can find on the internet, > except for the part where you load the kernel. Because you can load the > kernel from your CF card. And that's the only thing you have to put on > that card. And maybe grub or lilo as a bootloader. I'm pretty certain you'll want the bootloader on the CF. > You can tell the kernel where it can find it's root filesystem with this > parameter: > nfsroot=192.168.7.14:/export/nfs > You have to put this in your lilo or grub config. > > Check the bottom of http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html for some links. Good info there. The "Local Media" option on this page... http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1.3-en.html#AEN256 ...seems to be right along the lines of what you're attempting, Bob, so I suspect the ltsp docs will have some additional helpful info... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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