[mythtv-users] XBox with root via NFS?
Victor
sphing at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 09:31:00 EST 2005
I tried that... I originally put the swap on my file server and didn't
use the harddrive once it booted into linux. The NFS swap was
horrifically slow. I do not recommend it, however if your harddrive has
a 10gig instead of an 8gig, you could use the extra 2 gigs for swap
(which the xbox doesn't use). If that still isn't an option, you could
use a fatx file for swap like Ben mentioned (which I have never done).
Yet still you could upgrade to 128 megs of ram and try without swap
entirely. but having 64mb of ram and NFS swap is a slow solution.
Vic
chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote:
>
>
>>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard
>>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file on
>>hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native xBox
>>functions.
>>
>>
>
>If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps with the help of
>additional installed RAM) then I could shut down the drive, gaining a
>50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from the XBox isn't a
>problem when playing games since they tend to be loud anyway, but it's
>a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet recording.
>
>I figure having a slow swap would make navigating the menus painful and
>would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm actually watching
>TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going on.
>
>I was hoping someone on here would have already tried it and could tell
>me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't work so I don't spend
>a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the wheel.
>
>
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