[mythtv-users] XBox with root via NFS?

[Victor]

xbox dev # ls -1 hda*
hda
hda1
hda10
hda11
hda12
hda13
hda14
hda15
hda16
hda17
hda18
hda19
hda2
hda20
hda3
hda4
hda5
hda50
hda51
hda52
hda53
hda54
hda55
hda6
hda7
hda8
hda9

thats what I got and i have a 10gig... if someone has an 8gig to compare...

Vic

Ben Dash wrote:

>Victor,
>
>I was thinking about using >8gig space for swap so I
>could try suspend2 to put my xBox into hybernate
>sleep.  Do you know if the >8gig space has a dev name,
>i.e. hdaxx?
>
>In order to get the machine to recover from hybernate
>I need to pass a device as a boot option to the kernel
>that tells it where the swap file is.  I don't believe
>I can use a fatx swap for that.
>
>If I can get it to hybernate than the wife acceptance
>factor goes way up since it would, hopefully, boot in
>a lot less time than it takes now.
>
>Please let me know
>
>Ben
>
>--- Victor <sphing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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:
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>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>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
>>    
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>>>>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.
>>    
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>>>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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>>> 
>>>
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