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XBOX Linux
Does anyone here no anything about Linux on the xbox. Or better yet, does anybody have linux on there xbox. Any info. will be greatly appreciated.
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well, if you've used linux before, then it is an extremely good idea to get linux on your xbox; (it is also funny to note the irony)
if you don't have any experience with linux, you may be frustrated, especially since it can be a hassle to get linux onto the xbox if you don't have the right version, or mod-chip i assume you know about www.xbox-linux.org ; it has very good links and resources the wiki has some solid hints: wiki.xbox-linux.org from what i've been following, the most advanced (and certainly most updated) xbox distro is gentoox: http://gentoox.shallax.com/ to begin, you want to make sure your xbox is old enough (the newer they are, the harder to put linux on them without disabling the ability to play games); of course, if the sole purpose of the xbox is to use linux, then by all means get a mod-chip and put in Cromwell open the drive, and if you have four "extra" holes, then you have a samsung dvd drive, which are the only ones that will easily read cd-r(w)'s; this link has pictures: http://unmodded.mine.nu/docs/IdentificationOfDrive then, you will need access to the MechAssault game (a rent is good enough) you will also need to be lucky enough to have a usb storage device that the xbox can understand; because the xbox is a small pc-computer (no matter what anyone says), it can read many normal usb sticks check out this page for the rest of the information, with step-by-step instructions: http://www.xbox-linux.org/docs/gettingstarted.html personally, i am waiting on the gamecube linux project ;) www.gc-linux.org ; and it is being developed by the same guys! |
I am in the process of doing this to my XBOX, but I am doing the software version so I can still play games. I have everything I need except for the xbox to usb adapter. Once I get that (hopefully this comming week) I am going to follor the instructions on www.xbox-linux.org to get it working. I will reply back here once I get it working and tell you if I had to change or add any steps.
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that would be great. I really want to do this, but I don't know enough about it to convince myself to do it.
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do you not know enough about linux or the process of getting it onto the xbox?
the best way to learn about it is to go through the step-by-step guide, answering as if you were unsure... it is really well-made another good source is the gentoox forums; just ask them about their experiences the whole process at the top-level is fairly simple; to do the software install, you want to get a temporary kernel in place; this is done using the mech-install trick (plugin a usb device that seems to have an xbox dashboard update and use that to get linux installed into the system) after you have a basic kernel, you boot it from the dashboard, and run a very simple distro installer (and they are very fast, since all they really do is dump a large root partition onto the harddrive) select linux from the dashboard, and your distro should start one thing you should check on now is the dvd drive; if you have one of the original xboxes (about 6 months from the release or older), then you should have no problem with the install; if you have a newer one, then you may have some trouble; if it is very new, don't expect the mech-install trick to work if you have a samsung drive, then your xbox should be the right age *edit: and there is really nothing to be convinced about; if you have the tools, a software install will not hurt your xbox |
do any of you guy's know about this dreamx machine. I really can't tell much from there website. Does it have the cromwell chip in it. I don't know, there are many of these damn xbox mods now, I don't knwo which one to get.
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You can get Linux on a Xbox without using a mod-chip. Here is the Sourceforge project : http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/
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