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I am a linux noob. Gentoox won't boot for me now. At first it stopped and said something about a boot device and that management had to be done (enter password for root (obviously impossible) or ctrl-d for normal boot. Then I put the gentoox/stardust cd in and it stalls at "Activating (possible...

Well it seems to have installed dnetc, but i still can't run it by typing dnetc How do you run a binary executable?

I downloaded dnetc-linux-x86-elf-uclibc.tar.gz from distributed.net I tried running "emerge dnetc" just to see what would happen. To my suprise, its doing something. It calculated dependencies and is emerging bind-tools. I am definately a newb, does anybody know whats happening? Second, th...

What file starts vnc by default. I would like to edit this to get the 1024x768 resolution for vnc.

ifconfig still doesn't work. Is it possible to edit the net file to specify a default static ip address that the xbox uses if on a certain gateway, but otherwise will use dhcp?

Right now magic is running, maybe once thats done vnc will start working.

Am I supposed to change shells or change to KDE for ifconfig to work?

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that doens't seem to work. neither does connecting via VNC and http, although I can connect via ftp. During install I chose to run all of those automatically.

I would like to know the command to query my xbox's ip address from gentoox. ipconfig, ifconfig, none of these commands work. I searched everywhere and can't find anything. Also, I know there is the net file I can edit, to specify a static address. Is it possible to specify a default static ip addre...

I found this viewtopic.php?t=1293 It seems that my Xecutor bios should work fine, and I agree it seems like a legal issue. Are there any other advantages to using the Cromwell bios?

I have. Any suggestions for what I should search for. Searching for "Bios" is pretty useless.

I am not a newb to Xbox hacking, however I am a newb to gentoox and installing linux on my xbox. Do I need to install a gentoox or linux bios in order to use gentoox? If not, are there advantages to doing so? Any information that can fill the gaps in my understanding is greatly appreciated. Thank you.