[vdr] Re: Some hardware-questions

["Rene Hertell" <linuxtv@hertell.com>]

> I have a Epia 5000 and it boot fine from CF. But don't use a CF card
> like a harddrive. It will be shorten its life time ...
>
> Instead boot the system into a ramdisk. I'm using 256 MB RAM (128 MB
> should be enough) to run my VDR box. 48 MB MB are needed for the ramdisk
> of the system. That's all.
>
> I have not harddrive in the box and the recordings are written via the
> network to my server ...

This setup sounds nice! Yes, I intended to boot it into a ramdisk. Also
booting from the net would also be an interesting option :-)

What distro are you using? 48Mb sounds like the freepia distro..

Regards,


René



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