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Thanks for the suggestions Duncan and Hads.<br>
<br>
I have been looking at the following <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=DisklessFrontend">http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=DisklessFrontend</a><br>
<br>
in conjunction with the link that Duncan supplied.<br>
<br>
>From the second half of the above link, it looks like another option is
to tar up the partition while excluding my \myth and \mnt\share
directories. (2.4GB)<br>
And copy over to the Knoppmythbe sever to a directory such as
"frontend1" and then untar.<br>
<br>
The howto goes on to say that I need to recompile the kernel to support
NFS and NFSroot and then copy this updated kernel into the "frontend1"
directory.<br>
Following the steps in the howto, it appears to me that I will be
recompiling the Knoppmythbe servers kernel and copying this into the
"frontend1" directory.<br>
As the Frontend and Backend machines are different, won't this cause a
problem!<br>
<br>
Wouldn't I be better off to recompile the kernel on the Frontend
machine first before I tar it up and copy it over to the Backend<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help<br>
John<br>
<br>
PS When I get this sorted, I'll record my steps and update the Wiki so
other noobs like me can have a walkthrough.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Duncan Ritchie wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid001d01c85bc2$d1155b80$65fea8c0@erinbachd"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend</a>
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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mythtvnz-bounces+duncanr=pobox.com@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mythtvnz-bounces+duncanr=pobox.com@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:mythtvnz-bounces+duncanr=pobox.com@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">mailto:mythtvnz-bounces+duncanr=pobox.com@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a>] 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:
</pre>
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<pre wrap="">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.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
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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