Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Quiet PC's
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 19:02:21 EEST
Steve Harris wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:09:44AM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > What i really want to finger out is how i can run a box as a diskless/cd-rom boot system (linux xterm) and not have any hdd noise at all, yet still be able to use the local sound card - that would REALLY be quiet ... files, ?apps? and such would reside on the server in the basement. (ideas)
>
> You can make a linux box boot from the network but putting a special ROM
> a network cards boot rom slot, but its kinda fiddly. Also you can reflash
> certain bios' to use open boot methods rather than the priprietary one
> that comes with normal bios'. Someone at work has done this to build a
> diskless cluster, I can probably find out more if you want.
>
> One thing you will probably find though is that NFS isn't very fast.
which will rule out this option for audio, imho, unless you don't
require more than a few tracks simultaneously and you can live with
exorbitant latencies.
anyway, here's some material on diskless machines i played with for
an internet cafe a while ago:
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-other-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO.html
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