Talk:XFedora HOWTO

From Xbox-Linux

I have a FC2 computer. I downloaded the patch and kernel from kernel.org. Can I still use the patch on this computer even though it has FC3 in the name?

modchip linux

The Official Xbox Xecuter 3 CE ModChip(w/ 1.6 PCB) will allow me to run linux(use my XBox as a Desktop Computer) without taking away XBox Live capabilities, won't it?

Partitioning >10GB

I am a bit confused as to the order of this partitioning of drives over 10GB. Could someone please assure me I'm getting this right (or wrong), because it doesn't seem right to me.

 1. Backup the disk.
 2. Reformat with EvoX/etc.. [Assumption: The entire disk because I reload C,E,F later]
 3. Partition using the "above steps"
   3a. Make a partition 3 the size of the disk minus what I want for Linux. [100G for my 120G]

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Almost. "Partition 3" is used to preserve the first 8 Gigs of your hard-drive, which is where your Xbox Gaming Area lives. So, create Partition 3 as an "8G" (8 gigabyte) length partition starting at Sector 1.

   3b. Make a partition 1 swap [128M or so]
   3c. Make a partition 2 ext3 [rest of disk]
   3d. Remove the temporary partition 3
 4. mkfs.ext3 on hda2 and mkswap on hda1. Install Linux using whatever procedure.
 5. Re-install my FATX stuff. I suppose this is where FATX ignores my garbled crap at the end of the drive and safely skips over that.  Yes?

Doesn't this create an overlapping partition? FATX is fine with me writing all kinds of garbled (in relation to FAT entries) stuff at the end of it's 'F DRIVE'? Or am I just expected to not try to use that space? Clarifications would be helpful. Also, if this is right, maybe putting it in these steps in the HOWTO to make less people afraid.  :) Thanks.

TriXBOX install

I just upgraded my XBOX with a 30GB drive, Cromwell BIOS, and did a native install of XFC4. So far so good. I then downloaded the Trixbox-2.0 distribution (which usually builds on CentOS, but I figured XFC4 should be close enough), and tried to install with the supplied scripts, obviously under the false assumption that the patched installers used for XFC4 would prevent that parts critical to XFC4 for booting would get stomped over. That resulted in an unbootable system. So I started from scratch, and now I'm back with a pristine XFC4 installation.

The question now is: what things can/cannot be installed by means of yum or other rpm package installers? What do I need to do to prevent parts critical for booting getting destroyed. What if a package dependency tries to install a new kernel? (I'm not sure if that's the case, but it could be the case...)

What sort of auto-update options do I have and what do I need to avoid?

You get the gist of my questions...