[linux-dvb] Re: diskless vdr?

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@root.at>]

Uwe Heinrich wrote:
> 
> Hello ML,
> 
> does anybody already as a diskless VDR running?
> 
> I'm thinking of a mini-linux on CompactFlash and the /video on NFS or SAMBA.
> Is such a thing running somewhere?
> 
> Or do you think booting from lan is easier and / or cheaper?

since yesterdy my vdr box boots from lan perfectly and it wasn't that
difficult. at the moment it works like this:

bootprom is loaded from floppy (~30KB) (no eprom at the momement)
bootprom initilizes NIC and fetches ip address and name of kernel via
dhcp
kernel gets loaded via tftp
kernel boots and mounts / over nfs
kernel starts init which is only a script that loads the modules, starts
lircd, vdr and a bash for playing around a bit.

at tha moment i only copied my old dvb drivers and old vdr 0.7x to the
nfs-root dir cause i couldn't get the new drivers to work :-( but my new
setup will allow upgrading kernel, drivers and vdr without touching the
settopbox directly and this is very cool! :-)

if you decide to do it this way, you can ask me for details ...

so long ...
clemens


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