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Installation issues / Re: Media Director Only Installation
« on: June 23, 2007, 01:52:18 am »Right now as I understand it, the only way to have a media director is to have it net boot from the core. I'm curious about the 15 minutes you're talking about. Originally, the core has to create an O/S image for the MD, but once that happens, later boots are very quick. The image loads over the network in less than a minute (considerably less in my case).
With lmce1.1b2 all you need to do to create a non pxe booted MD (ie one that does not boot from the Core you have already installed) is to install the installer on the Kubuntu 7.04 machine you want to create as an MD and then run the installer. Make sure that this machine is on the same net (and has an IP issued by the Cores dhcp) as the core and the installer will recognise that you already have an existing working Core and will offer you the option to install as a standalone MD... just say yes and your on your way! We have several MD setup this way and they work great (in fact the Kubuntu machine i am using to write this is such a machine)
Hope this is of some help
Andrew