Mythbuntu Installed using USB Memory Stick?

[marc]

Pat, I've heard and read from time to time that you have Myth currently installed on your ION board using a memory stick as the system drive.

I'm interested.

I was thinking of net booting but the server is running 64bit linux not 32bit as the ION board requires.

What size memory stick are you using? Is 1GB too little? What do you do to minimize writes to the device thus reducing the inevitable time when the maximum R/W cycles are met?

Thanks for your comments and tips.

Marc-us

[Patrick]

Pat, I've heard and read from time to time that you have Myth currently installed on your ION board using a memory stick as the system drive.

What size memory stick are you using? Is 1GB too little? What do you do to minimize writes to the device thus reducing the inevitable time when the maximum R/W cycles are met?

I have an 8 gig stick but I'm sure a 4 gig would be fine. The only time I'm writing to disk are when I do package updates (beside the initial system install). Front ends read everything from the backend system. Booting up is a little slow 90 seconds or so but it's very responsive once the system is up. It's pretty seamless using the system. You would never guess everything is being pushed over the network.I'm sure it helps I have a wired network connection up to the family room (where the Zotac is used). I'm very happy with my current setup and my new Samsung HDTV just made it even better.

[marc]

Mythbuntu distro?
No swap?

[Patrick]

Mythbuntu distro?
No swap?

I have swap but I also have 4 gig of RAM in there. Very little need for swap.

[eddie]

You can boot other architectures with an ltsp compatible setup (or fudge a bit). You just have to add the binaries and mod the dhcp server a little bit. We used to netboot diskless apple g3's into linux from an intel box running ltsp with no problem at all. Adding the other intel architecture should be a snap. If you search the net you can find the details on how to do it. Example: (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubunt ... sArchSetup).

[marc]

You can boot other architectures with an ltsp compatible setup (or fudge a bit). You just have to add the binaries and mod the dhcp server a little bit. We used to netboot diskless apple g3's into linux from an intel box running ltsp with no problem at all. Adding the other intel architecture should be a snap. If you search the net you can find the details on how to do it. Example: (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubunt ... sArchSetup).

Thanks for the link, I'll research.