Just a little question... thx for help

Canard · Post by **Canard** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:21 am

Just installed Gentoox on E:\ and ran magic
It's benn running for 5 hours now and still not completed
Just 2 questions :
1) is it normal? and if so, how much time does it take to completely update?
2) Does the update (or even Gentoox) modify/alterate my E:\ Partition so i can't use it as before ? (savegames and/or utils stored on it)

By the way, thx to ShallaX and eveyone who can help

Canard · Post by **Canard** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:36 am

Eh..... another question if possible

:

I'm not sure of it but it seems (after having read several threads on this forum) that magic does flash the ROM at the end of the update.
True?
If so, is it possible to decide not to flash it and keep my old bios and have gentoox running?

Again, thanks

hobbes · Post by **hobbes** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:21 pm

it will flah only if u said u have flashable bios during setup. (i dunno if magic flashes it, but stardusrt will if u tell it u have the chip) i ran magic on my gentoox pro v1.1 right after i intalled it and it took over close to 36 hours. lol, gentoox is not for the impatient....

only native F intsall alters filesystems. u did E: regular so all it does is make a linux filesystem on a file on E: all ur xbox stuff stays and is untouched. hope this helps!

Taily · Post by **Taily** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:20 pm

Magic never flashes your tsop / modchip
Stardust on the other hand flashes it, IF YOU WAN'T IT TO, and if it is able to..

If you wan't to afterwards flash it, you will have to use raincoat (raincoat v.0.5? is included with gentoox home, if you wan't to flash a v.1.4 / 1.5 box you might need raincoat v.0.7, i needed it atleast)

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:51 pm

hobbes wrote:i ran magic on my gentoox pro v1.1 right after i intalled it and it took over close to 36 hours. lol, gentoox is not for the impatient....

If you chose to install mplayer then I think it would of compiled gtk which takes a long time. If you choose to install KDE then it has to compile qt. On the xbox the kde install takes about 60 hours!