[wellylug] diskless headless

[Andrew Ruthven]

I've been running a diskless MythTV frontend for about 7 years.  It runs
fine.

How grunty the server needs to be will depend on how much NFS type
traffic you'll be generating.  But I'd imagine with 5 nodes anything
even remotely modern will be sufficient.

I use Debian, but again, most distros will allow you to network boot
from.  Part of the issue is having some tools to manage the shared
image, and then the components that need to be customised per node.

The tools which I use have long since been deprecated by the
maintainers.  :(

Cheers!

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 13:47 +1300, Tim McNamara wrote:
> How diskless? Do you want to flash Linux into ROM?
> 
> On 4 November 2010 13:36, E Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>         It's callled a mobo...
>         More seriously :  The idea is to use 5 diskless headless
>         "drqueue" for image processing.
>         
>         Has anyone been playing around with booting diskless linux
>         boxes recently?
>         How reliable is that, what are the sine qua non for that ? 
>         any distro in particular ? how powerful should be the main
>         server ?
>         
>         The usual questions when starting from scratch.
>         Thanks
>         Edouard
>         
>         
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