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
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:24:13AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote:
When you created the swap and root partitions what
device, hdaxx, did you specify when you ran fdisk?
I installed Xebian and specified the option to install to the upper 2Gb
using native Linux partitions. It automagically created
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
I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little
noisy and eventually I'll replace it with a quieter
one, however, I had no idea that the hard drive was a
noise problem. Obviously I can't hear anything above
the noise of the fan currently. If the hard drive
becomes a problem I'll probably
Shallax, gentoox developer, has a couple really good utilities to
control the hardware, including a utility to quiet the fan down from 20%
all the way to 100%... you could play with it and see if thats whats
causing the noise. The fan is hands down the loudest component of the xbox.
Vic
Ben Dash
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
Good plan! It would be very annoying to take the time
to replace the fan only to find that it was actually
the HDD that was making all the noise!
--- Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shallax, gentoox developer, has a couple really good
utilities to
control the hardware, including a utility to
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
On 11/29/05, Ben Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip /
I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to
xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well you
box was working with just the 64MB, or are you merely
talking about your future plans.
Ben,
did you purchase a new xbox mobo through them? or do
--- Andrew Close wrote:
On 11/29/05, Ben Dash wrote:
snip /
I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to
xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well
you
box was working with just the 64MB, or are you
merely
talking about your future plans.
Ben,
did you purchase a new xbox mobo
I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little
noisy and eventually I'll replace it with a quieter
one, however, I had no idea that the hard drive was a
noise problem. Obviously I can't hear anything above
the noise of the fan currently. If the hard drive
becomes a problem I'll probably
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
I'm using an xBox with an NFS root and a FatX file for
swap.
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.
I have heard of people doing network swapping,
however, it seems to
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
I know it is possible to run Linux on XBox with a root on NFS, but the
instructions to do so usually then suggest using the local hard drive
for swap. I'd like to be able to shut down the hard drive after loading
Linux from the dashboard. Is it practical to run MythTV on Xebian with
the swap
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