Heres what I did to give linux a native install on a (about) 10 gig space of its own with an 80GB Hard Drive and a couple of other handy tools (including my X3)
Backup drive F - JUST IN CASE, as mine got formatted I assume I missed something important
1. burned the Gentoox Home 3.2 Cd
2. Modified Evox M8+ bios (with EVox tool_1.0.9) to have 48bit support enabled - and other personalizations
NOTE: I used the option "partition 6 takes the rest of the drive" and made sure ignore HDD partition table was unchecked --> see
http://www.xbox-scene.org to get info on where to find these (search for xbins)
3. Flashed modded M8+ and the gentoox loader to banks on the X3 chip and set the DIPs to the M8 bios
4. Used Auto Installer Deluxe 1.0 to boot into its dash
5. Under Tools, I ran xbpartition and completely erased the non-default partitions (6 was the only one)
6. I enabled partition 6 and sized it up until there was around 10GB of free space
7. I enabled partition 7 and sized it up until there was no free space.
8. Wrote down the Hex code of the start of the 7th partition (G) - which happened to be 07ee8ad0
9. I searched with google for a hex to decimal converter and converted the above number - converts to 133073616
10. Using the instructions posted above, I launched Gentoox off the cd and used Putty to ssh into the xbox
NOTE: At any point that it asks you to format the drive say NO! Do not reset once started!
11. ctrl-c breaks the script allowing access to the command line
12. typed "vi /etc/gentooxinstaller"
NOTE: vi is a text editor, see
http://www.chem.brown.edu/instructions/vi.html#chng for list of commands
13. using the commands I pattern searched for start=1565
14. when I found the right spots I replaced the default start=15657985 with start=133073616
15. I then replaced the default seek=15657985 with seek=133073616
16. Exit vi once editing is done with ":wq"
17. Ran the install script with "sh /etc/gentooxinstaller"
NOTE: DO NOT RESTART - this is very very important
18. When asked, do not to format, and install as a native install
19. the rest is pretty much automated from here on out, it take about 3/4 to 1.5hrs to install
20. now, when I want to launch Gentoox, I just switch to the Gentoox loader that is on my X3 and plug in my mouse and keyboard. When I want to play games, I just use the M8+ bios
It worked! And native installs are much faster, and use a bit less memory than the regular install.
Now, I just need to fill up my F drive to be sure it doesnt spill itself over the end.
Final NOTE - xbpartition no longer recognizes the G drive I made, and says the F drive is the origional full size(about 70GB), but all the dashboards dont see the extra space, which should be fine as long as you dont change the partition table....or launch from a bios that doesnt support the on disk partition table (which includes the current Xecutor Live Bios)
off topic: Shallax, I hope you get well soon
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