All of this is done from sparkle, just hit ctrl+c twice when you get to the disk repair section
INFO: f's sector start position is 15633072, if you wish to use g instead and leave f fatx replace all instances with 268435456
zero f's fatx partition marker
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dd if =/dev/zero of=/dev/hda seek=15633072 bs=512 count=1
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fdisk -u /dev/hda
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n
p
1
15633072
<just hit enter her for default>
w
you really ought to reboot the xbox here, and launch sparkle again
format the new partition
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mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1
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mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/f
cd /mnt/f
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wget http://192.168.1.200/gentoox/rootfs
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mkdir /mnt/loopback; mount -o loop /mnt/f/rootfs /mnt/loopback
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cp -a /mnt/loopback/* /mnt/f
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rm /mnt/f/boot/*
more to come, I'll explain how to edit the linuxboot.cfg properly aswell as fstab, writing this as I go.
Info for this so far incomplete guide was taken from http://www.x-dsl.org/wiki/Partitioning , viewtopic.php?t=3092 , and viewtopic.php?t=2254