[mythtvnz] Convert existing Frontend to a diskless Frontend

[Duncan Ritchie]

I have been working on exactly this over the last few weeks.

I am using Fedora 7 for my main backend and IPCop as my firewall/DHCP etc.

I followed the instructions here
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend

A couple of things that caused me problems:

When you rsync make use you have umount'ed your NFS mount to
mythvideo/mythmusic shares or exclude them.

The snapshot feature on fedora sees to be broken so I had to export the root
rw.  This isn't an issue for me as I'm happy with a whole image per client.

You need to have busybox.anaconda installed on the image so it is easier to
do this before you rsync.

I ignored the DHCP info and used the fixed lease feature in IPCop.

I also tested with a VMPlayer image as shown in the link above.  This worked
really well.

Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-bounces+duncanr=pobox.com at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces+duncanr=pobox.com at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf
Of Hadley Rich
Sent: Sunday, 20 January 2008 4:45 p.m.
To: MythTV in NZ
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Convert existing Frontend to a diskless Frontend

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:32:38 John Moore wrote:
> I have been wanting to have a diskless frontend for a while now, but the
> issue of rebuilding the frontend and losing all the changes I researched
> and made for the VFD display and Remote etc has made me very reluctant.
>
> However I was wondering if there is any straight forward way to take my
> current setup and convert it to a image that can be saved on the backend
> and then used to boot the diskless frontend.
> I am a relatively noob to Linux, but have been playing around with
> Knoppmyth for the last 3 years.
>
> Any ideas / suggestions would be appreciated.

You could rsync the entire filesystem to a subdirectory on the backend and 
then pxe boot and NFS root the frontend from the backend.

I do that here for the frontend in our bedroom although the filsystem was 
created with debootstrap rather than using an existing filesystem.

hads

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