They also make risers for AGP vid crds and PCI slots that are at 90 degree angles so you could get a really thin case (1U) and cram everything in there. That would be nice.
On 6/7/05, Egeekial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realized that was somewhat redundant. I forgot to throw in putting the > whole OS on the CF card read-only instead of booting off the network. > > Egeekial wrote: > > > Has anyone tried using a compactflash card for a drive? They make > > IDE->Compactflash converters. This wouldn't exactly be "diskless", but > > it would be "hard drive-less". > > > >> On 6/7/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Michael Carland wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> One idea if PXE doesn't work, or you don't have PXE, and you still > >>>> want a silent machine, would be to boot from flash (or even floppy). I > >>>> have a CompactFlash to IDE adapter, that can be used to load a kernel, > >>>> and the rest could be loaded from network. If the motherboard supports > >>>> booting from a USB drive, this would do the same thing. You could even > >>>> load the kernel from a floppy, although when I used to do this the > >>>> same floppy sitting in the same drive for months on end would need to > >>>> be replaced once or twice a year. Not exactly diskless in that case, > >>>> but other than 30 seconds at boot, there is no drive noise. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Or, throw in a DVD drive and boot from CD/DVD, and you can play DVD's > >>> with the frontend, also. > >>> > >>> Mike > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> mythtv-users mailing list > >>> mythtv-users@mythtv.org > >>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> mythtv-users mailing list > >> mythtv-users@mythtv.org > >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
