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I just installed a distro called "Xandros" on a spare PC and its has everything I would like to see on the xbox version of Linux. Unfortunately it uses KDE so it might be a bit slow but if it used xfce4 or icewm then it would be ideal. It also has a util called "crossover" which ...

go to this thread it tells you how to do it:

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you dont need to emerge xfree etc from what i remember i just typed "magic" and then picked what i wanted to install including xfree and other stuff its all automatic. portage is already there but you may need to "emerge -u portage" to update it. to install XFCE4 do the following...

I am trying to understand more about the boot procedure in gentoox etc. I know in msdos its autoexec.bat but is there an equivelent in gentoox? I have been trying to find the startup script/s which gentoox uses during its bootupp process. I can find the obvious ones such as initttab but for instance...

Gentoox home & pro versions are meant to be installed on a std format of xbox hard drive. gentoox installs by default to the c: partition (can if wished, be moved to F: partition after install). The reason behind this is that (unlike other linux installs) you dont need to modfiy your xbox hard d...

here is the fstab from gentoox pro # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/loop/0 / reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda50 /mnt...

now when it boots up i get a xfree86 login box and after logging in i get a "Session menu" with only 3 options i can choose, choosesessionlistwidget, Default/Fail safe & Cancel. if i select default/failsafe or cancel i get a black screen with a mouse pointer/cross and cant do anything ...

so if I set to run level 5 will that save me having to login and type "startx"?

Ive tried that and it didnt work. As soon as the system boots up I am prompted to login. So i have to log in as root and then type: startx startxfce4 if i log in as the user i created ("roadrash") and add those 2 commands to a .xinitrc file in the directory /home/roadrash i get a screen fu...

I have just installed gentoo linux on a pc to play around with and get a better understanding of what to do with the gentoox on my xboxes. I have just installed X windows and want to to be able to have it start during bootup like it does on gentoox. at the moment I have to log in and then type "...

i had trouble installing the linux flashplayer to use with konqueror so i used mozilla instead cos it has a built flash

i'm using gentoox pro with everything such as xfree installed and wanted to install icewm & icewm-tools so i logged in as root and typed the following: emerge icewm then once finished i typed: emerge icewm-tools trouble is i cant launch icewm and ive tried to locate the file and cant. I tried ad...

thanks mate that worked.. i better post that fix into the topic i started about installing xfce to gentoox pro so others know what to do...

hey shallax i tried the command: "echo "home2.1" > /etc/gentoox_version && magic fix kernel-2.4.20 && magic fix xbvset && magic" and it installed a new kernal and all the patches but when it rebooted it stopped at the evolution-x logo with a message (partl...