Okay how do you do a native install with stardust?

XBoxgeek · Post by **XBoxgeek** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:13 am

Hi,

I downloaded Gentoox.ShALLaX.Pro-Edition.Integrated-Install.rar.
Burnt a CDR-W with the ISO
Flashed my Bios with the stardust 640x480 Bios
Booted my XBox
Installed Stardust in DVD
Stardust runs
I have 2 options:-
e
f
I select f it says I need 3.5 Gb, I only have 2 as it's a stock drive.
So I re-run stardust and select e and it installs. But at no tme did it ask me about a native install.

I watched the watch me video 3 times and I can not see the option on there either. Have I missed something stupid or am I Stupid.

Many thanks
XBoxgeek

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:52 am

You dont have a big enough F partition to do a native install.

XBoxgeek · Post by **XBoxgeek** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 11:17 am

aah okay,

I was getting confused because in another post you said

You can already install natively to F: on a stock 10gb hdd. Ive done it on my xbox. It leaves you with 280MB free.

viewtopic.php?t=246&highlight=native

No problem.

Cheers
XBoxgeek

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 12:45 pm

It must depend on which stock 10gb you have :\

XBoxgeek · Post by **XBoxgeek** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:06 pm

D'oh

I am using a Seagate ST310221A. I also have a stack of other ones here from all the mod's I have done in the past. Basically I have only two types:-

Type 1) Seagate ST310221A
Type 2) Seagate ST310014ACE

I will have a play, but I think they are both 10 gigs (so the Segate website says).

I wonder if there is away when I format my drive with Evox if I can change the partition data so it creates e: smaller than 5 gigs, say 3?.

You see I have an old XBox that I just want Genoox on natively. It seems a waste to buy a bigger drive when I have about 20 10gigs here

.

BTW. Gentoox rocks.

Cheers anyway.
XBoxgeek

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:17 pm

Seagate ST310014ACE is the hdd im using and definitely works. Its _slightly_ bigger than than the other, though they call them both 10GB. You cant format the partitions to be different sizes since the bios specifies the size of partitions.

XBoxgeek · Post by **XBoxgeek** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 7:13 pm

Hi ShALLaX,

I am going crazy here

I chucked in a Seagate ST310014ACE, formated the whole drive with Evox. Using this drive gave me about 250mb more space than the ST310221A.

I boot with Stardust from bios X2 4977. When I get to the Pick drive letter section, I only have e & f. If I pick f it says I need 3.5Gb. If I pick e it does a standard install on e i.e using a rootfs file.

I downloaded this distro from sourceforge "Gentoox.ShALLaX.Pro-Edition.Integrated-Install.rar" dated September 18th is this the right one?

What am I doing wrong? Should I not be using X2 4977 to boot Stardust from?

Many thanks.
XBoxgeek

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:04 pm

Heres what the test criteria for enabling native is:

if [ -r /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part55 ] || [ -r /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 ]; then
echo -e "native"
fi

This means that if part55 exists OR part2 exists, you should see the "native" option. Logically, this means that if you see "F" you should also see "native".

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:08 pm

Woah hangon, that Integrated-Install pro was the first batch of integrated-installers I made. It didnt support native install and I dont know if it bothered checking to see if F drive was available. You should redownload pro. The new name is just called "Gentoox.ShALLaX.Pro-Edition.rar".

I think that should solve your problems!

XBoxgeek · Post by **XBoxgeek** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:02 am

yep that's the one I installed first, but they are just the core files no installer is included. How do I do a native install with that?

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:04 am

No no no, the original one was also just called "pro edition", then i called it "pro edition integrated-install", then i went back to just "pro edition". So if you download the proedition now, it should be the latest and greatest version

XBoxgeek · Post by **XBoxgeek** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:32 am

LOL My head hurts!! Okay I got the new file and I am doing a native install as I type this

(Glad I got the 2mb pipe for these downloads).

Thanks for all your help and please forgive my stupidity

Cheers
XBoxgeek

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:01 am

Glad i got to the bottom of it