Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux oldvcr.blogspot.com 78 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago
yjftsjthsd-h 2 hours ago > The other problem we need to solve is swap. Linux, or at least not this Linux, won't let you use a swapfile hosted over NFS; swapon will give you an illegal argument error and refuse to enable it.To my shock, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device says> The protocol was originally developed for Linux 2.1.55 and released in 1997.so I wonder if you could use that? It's better suited to swap anyways.
486sx33 4 hours ago And this is how GD-ROMs got ripped. Broadband adapter and the shoot out the data over Ethernet
> The other problem we need to solve is swap. Linux, or at least not this Linux, won't let you use a swapfile hosted over NFS; swapon will give you an illegal argument error and refuse to enable it.
To my shock, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device says
> The protocol was originally developed for Linux 2.1.55 and released in 1997.
so I wonder if you could use that? It's better suited to swap anyways.
And this is how GD-ROMs got ripped. Broadband adapter and the shoot out the data over Ethernet