[mythtv-users] XBox with root via NFS?

[Ben Dash]

 wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:31:00AM -0500, Victor
> 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).
> 
> My XBox has a 10Gb drive.  The first 8 gigs are
> untouched, and the 
> upper 2 gigs are divided into 256Mb swap and 1.75Gb
> root (ext2) 
> partition.

When you created the swap and root partitions what
device, hdaxx, did you specify when you ran fdisk?

I would prefer my swap to be a native partition rather
than the fatx file on hda50 which it is currently.

Please let me know,

Thanks!


	
		
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