AFAIK Ubuntu still supports NFS which ive used in my myth media box for quite a while. I'm not clear on the kernel vs userspace issues but I know it runs. I have just done a Backend install with mythbuntu 9.04 and some things are
broken in the Mythbuntu Control Centre (MCC) especially for the
Diskless Server. Here's what I've found.<br>
I used MCC to setup diskless server and it does the ltsp stuff and
gets that going with minimal fuss, there is then the customising and
everything to get it to do all you want. When I began to use the Frontend MCC (which crashed each time I exited it) I ran into trouble, and ended up trying the shell based stuff untill more frustration put me off it. The how to is
covered in a pdf you can download from the mythbuntu site.<br>
In the end, i went and installed mythbuntu by hand onto a USB stick
which works fairly well so far. I'll go back to the squashfs/ltsp
version a bit later when I have time as it seems a really nice idea. I'm hoping not to get too many issues with it.<br>
I'm about to do the VDPAU stuff on the stick based frontend and will report on my progress.<br>Barry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/23 Mark de Reeper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.dereeper@gmail.com">mark.dereeper@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I haven't had to build a kernel for a while but used to do it for this reason, net booting. I haven't checked recent distro's to see if this is a default item on their kernels, don't have one to hand to try.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Robin Gilks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org" target="_blank">g8ecj@gilks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Just wondering where you got the NFS root aware kernel, did you build it<br>
> yourself (looks like a gentoo based one from the name in your config)?<br>
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</div>I always build my own - old habits etc from the days when there wasn't<br>
really much choice!! (circa 1997).<br>
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I take it that the normal packaged systems like Ubuntu don't have nfs<br>
support built in?<br>
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