Ok im in eastern washington and i thought id work on my current project - 8x 1gb hard drives with a 300mhz amd k6 running them. my thought was can a live CD designate those hard drives to be virtual memory?
through a live CD can you...
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I know it annoys me when people reply to a question with comments like the one about to follow, but I have to say: I have absolutely no idea. I'm not even sure I understand what you're trying to do.
ok well when u use paritition managers while doing a normal install of say ubuntu, u have to have a primary partition set as root and then set least 256mb of ram or so as your swap/virtual memory. but i wanted to know if through a live cd i could format all of those hard drives into swap drives and run it with the live and not have an install
*cough* I think someone's just trying to up his post count. *cough*
I suggest going to www.geekstogo.com. I believe they've got a linux section, so they should be able to help you there.
Hescominsoon
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why would you want such a large swap space anyway? That's going to bring the system to a grinding halt(remember what appenes in windows if you start digging into swap?). If you are that short on ram..bet more..or get a bigger box.
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open up fdisk and reformat the drive, make sure you have the proper flag set (81 or 82 iirc).
mkswap /path/to/disk
swapon /path/to/disk
You could possibly run those in raid 0, but the cpu over head probable isnt worth it for something < 500MHz (and setup can be a pain)
Linux runs fine on 64mb and 128mb machines. Some live cd's may need up to 150mb to boot, but 96mb should be fine for most. Try to get a "lightweight" distro (ie xfce or *box as window managers) using gnome or kde on a memory constrained machine can be painful.
Don't knock people for what they are trying to do. If they want to have fun, let em
mkswap /path/to/disk
swapon /path/to/disk
You could possibly run those in raid 0, but the cpu over head probable isnt worth it for something < 500MHz (and setup can be a pain)
Linux runs fine on 64mb and 128mb machines. Some live cd's may need up to 150mb to boot, but 96mb should be fine for most. Try to get a "lightweight" distro (ie xfce or *box as window managers) using gnome or kde on a memory constrained machine can be painful.
Don't knock people for what they are trying to do. If they want to have fun, let em
laf the only reason i would want to do it, is because i have nothing better to do with a bunch of 1gb hard drives lol
ok now, one proplem i had was i didt want to buy a 600W power supply to power everything........ and i found this guide..... is it like.... safe?
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/wind...-Dual-psu-system-using-1-Power-on-button.html
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/wind...-Dual-psu-system-using-1-Power-on-button.html
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ehhh, running dual PSUs side by side is theoretically possible but isnt the best for the hardware.
Hescominsoon
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not true. It's done in servers all the time. Just be careful about it. before you go down this road what are you using that requires 600 watts?
8 hard drives......
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if they are oldie hard disks a 300w power supply might handle it, the old cpu wont draw much juice.
yeah but there are not enough connectors and i dont like using extenders, ive had bad luck with those on fans
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you just have to short 2 of the pins, 13 and 14 iirc to get the juice flowing on a power supply. As long as you dont bridge connectors it should be fine.
now question...... that guide said 14 and 15....