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by lotw
Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:21 pm
Forum: Requests
Topic: How
Replies: 1
Views: 3209

How

How about a Gentoox Live CD, so that if you boot somehow becomes screwed you can boot from that disc and samba over your files? That is what happened to me, Gentoox will no longer boot, at least without errors. Says dev/boot not found, etc. The sparkle does nothing to fix that either. For now I am t...
by lotw
Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:52 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: What to emerge for a decent pro install.
Replies: 2
Views: 2341

Re: What to emerge for a decent pro install.

Just wondering if there is a list out there of the minimum number of things i shoudl emerge to get a gui system runing xfree xfce thos kinds of things Just be aware that installing those two things will tie the Xbox up from being used for quite a while, the downloading of the packages is pretty fas...
by lotw
Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:22 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: mounting samba shares
Replies: 4
Views: 3567

Re: mounting samba shares

im an almost complete linux newb. I just installed gentoox and want to listen to music on my windows machine, but i have no way to browse it except through konqueror. I have searched various forums for days and i still cant do it. I tried root: mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.2/ /root/mnt Any help would...
by lotw
Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:45 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: I can't see the INSTALL QUESTIONS ON GENTOOX 3.1
Replies: 3
Views: 3007

Re: I can't see the INSTALL QUESTIONS ON GENTOOX 3.1

When i try to install this version of gentoox everything is overscanned to the left of the screen. Is there a way to remedy this problem?? I have pin pointed the problem. It seems that this problem only occurs on the 1.6 xboxes with the appleVI pro chip using the M8 bios. So now i need to ask if th...
by lotw
Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Can´t start MCE correctly, Can´t install Gentoox
Replies: 1
Views: 9924

Re: Can´t start MCE correctly, Can´t install Gentoox

When I try to start MCE I get to the startpage but there is no action possible. Using the remote control or the gamepad brings no effect. I reinstalled MCE several times - no effect. When I try to install Gentoox during the MCE installation an errormessage appears: "You don´t have enough space...
by lotw
Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:25 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: Changing hoc, voc on Home v3.1
Replies: 6
Views: 4372

Re: Changing hoc, voc on Home v3.1

I have a v1.6 xbox, no mod chip, i still can't figure out how to change the voc, hoc for my xbox. I tried SVBset and it gave me one option for each question, composite, 640x480, ntsc. Someone please help me! TIA! If you search for that you will find a thread that tells how to do it. Not sure if it ...
by lotw
Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:23 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: MCE-format F:??? *worried*
Replies: 1
Views: 2156

Re: MCE-format F:??? *worried*

i want to install MCE on my larger HDD BUT i definately don't want to wipe my F partition :? (or any partition for that matter!). -is there any way to not format any partitions when installing MCE? -if not, what programs (on KDE) can i use as an alternative? and can these programs play dvds? (if so...
by lotw
Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Weird ripping experience
Replies: 4
Views: 12890

Re: Weird ripping experience

Hello! I ripped my LotR 3 DVD with good quality and now i've got 2 files "Herr der Ringe 3.avi" - 370mb featuring the last 30 minutes "Herr der Ringe 3.avi-000" 2gb feauturing the rest of the film Why does the dvdripper create two files and how can i merge them into one? I want ...
by lotw
Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:15 pm
Forum: Requests and Suggestions
Topic: G Installation Support for MCE
Replies: 2
Views: 11013

Re: G Installation Support for MCE

I want support for installing 2 the G Drive, cause not all software supports the G Drive(regular XBOX modding stuff/non-Linux based things) This is cause I'm buying a 160Gb HDD, and I can have a 23Gb G Drive, or have a 152Gb F Drive. but If u add the support for a G drive installation, I can just i...
by lotw
Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:07 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: controller doesn't work anymore
Replies: 6
Views: 4090

I now have this problem. I bought the pelican wireless controllers, they work fine with games, dashboard, everything else. gentoox doesn't like them. So I then tried it with a madcatz controller plugged in, still no good, now neither of them work, no controllers are working at this point. so I ssh ...
by lotw
Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:44 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: Write error during install
Replies: 2
Views: 2541

Re: Write error during install

I tried to do an install from a DVD created with the Stardust iso and selected a non-native install to F. However it failed write away with an error writing to F. Is this because I have a 160Gb drive and no G drive? I tried searching the forums and FAQ's and it still seems unclear to me whether > 1...
by lotw
Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:19 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: windows 98 install problem
Replies: 1
Views: 2159

Re: windows 98 install problem

Ok, I have bochs set up right. But when I go to install win98 I can get far as "restarting your computer" on the windows setup page. When I press restart or let it restart itseelf the screen just turns black. When I reset bochs I have a choice of "setup without cdrom support", a...
by lotw
Sat Sep 04, 2004 4:07 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: just kind of worried about magic.
Replies: 3
Views: 2983

Re: just kind of worried about magic.

i started magic 5 hours ago and i saw some stuff like g++ -blah -blah blah - blah -blahblahblah -blah-blah -blah blah - blah -blahblahblah -blah-blah -blah blah - blah -blahblahblah -blah-blah -blah blah - blah -blahblahblah -blah written over and over and over again. No errors are displayed or any...
by lotw
Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:33 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Misc Error on large partition (over 137GB)
Replies: 16
Views: 9943

With all this talk about the problems with a larger then 137g drive, what really is the problem? I have mine formatted Native and it is a 160g Drive and it works perfect so far. I have filled the drive to less then 12g free and never had a problem. Is that drive limitation only if you use the F inst...
by lotw
Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:57 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: does gentoox home ver 3.0c feature focus support ?
Replies: 1
Views: 2050

Re: does gentoox home ver 3.0c feature focus support ?

does gentoox home ver 3.0c feature focus support ? i have what i guess is an old version of gentoox and it is all scramble becuase it doesn't have focus chip support for my v1.4 xbox. I have ssh'd in and started magic but i'm on dialup 33.6 nad it disconnects randomly, it,s been going for 4hrs so f...