On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:19:29PM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: > I'd really like to use my XBox as a diskless mythtv > frontend. Since I'm not planning on using the XBox > for anything other than Myth and XBox games I don't > really want to swap out the standard 8 or 10 gig > drive. I'd prefer to put etherboot onto some free > space on the existing disk, or even better in the > SmartXX EEPROM, then boot Gentoo off the LAN. > > Does anyone have any idea how doable that would be?
I think it's doable... the issue is that I think you would really want some swap... and that means swap over nfs or possibly nbd (network block device?) The reason I say this is that the xbox has only 64 megs and I know from experience that it uses that swap frequently. Particularly when switching from mythtv to xine and back. Anyway, maybe you planned on swap over nfs/etc. but the whole idea always seemed dodgy. Probably people do it all the time, but whatever. I always thought that a CF/IDE adapter would be awesome until I discovered that flash memory generally has a limit on the number of writes it can handle before it's toast. This would make it a bad choice for a swap device in a 64 meg system running relatively large apps like mythtv, X.org, and xine. The cronwell replacement bios supports network booting so you should be good there. > Has anyone already tried it? No, but I think it's readily doable. I own two xboxes and I'll probably put cromwell on one of them one of these days. Currently I use the MechInstaller/font exploit that makes it possible to play xbox games and run linux.
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