Re: [bedel@allmail.net: Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox]
Yes. If you are only after it to put linux on your xbox, then you're best bet is looking for it on Ebay. Mech Assault is also available for $50 new (which you can also use). I got mine from K-Mart. Shane Dave wrote: How about 007? Can you get that one in Australia? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/howtoexploit.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
Ben, If you need a hand give me a yell, Ive installed linux on three Xbox's now All were mod'd but that was because, well we geeks need to really mod it to make it work ;) The 007 and Mech tricks apparently work quite well. somewhere on here www.thebuckland.com you can read my pain of installing Linux on my XBox, it was sure a while a go now though. And it's still running to this day. makes great cheap (sub $300) File Server. (or webserver) cheers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben de Luca (bedel) Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2004 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox Im ok will running it but i dont have a modded xbox and I know you can install it with out opening the box. I just dont have the software to do that and wondering if any one does? On 05/05/2004, at 11:03 AM, Andrewd wrote: You could try http://www.dynebolic.org/ it is a live CD that boots Linux on a modded XBox HEre is the blurb from the website You don't need to install anything, you don't even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you'll get back true love ;^) dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software! dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more. It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters. Im considering installing linux on an xbox I have and I was wondering if there might be some one who can give me a hand setting it up. I would like to do the software install that is mentioned on the xbox page on source forge. But i cant find the mech game. If there is some one who can give me a hand in sydney let me know. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html ---Safe Stamp--- Your Anti-virus Service scanned this email. It is safe from known viruses. For more information regarding this service, please contact your service provider. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.678 / Virus Database: 440 - Release Date: 6/05/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.678 / Virus Database: 440 - Release Date: 6/05/2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
haha yes, that would be correct. being the powerpc-linux bigot that i am, im suprised i blasphemed such things as saying an xbox has a ppc Dean -Original Message- From: Shane Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox Dean Hamstead wrote: i believe sony helped get linux going on playstation2, but youll need to google it. the xbox is a powerpc with an ati card. its biggest problem is that it doesnt have a hard disk (unlike ps2 and xbox) I'm guessing you mean't GameCube instead of xbox in reference to powerpc and ati card :) Here's a link for those who are interested : http://www.gc-linux.org/ Shane -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
actually a lot closer than you think.. xbox2 is according to prelim reports PPC/ATI based .. again that is hersay rumour and conjecture :-) Dave. On Thu, 6 May 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote: haha yes, that would be correct. being the powerpc-linux bigot that i am, im suprised i blasphemed such things as saying an xbox has a ppc Dean -Original Message- From: Shane Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox Dean Hamstead wrote: i believe sony helped get linux going on playstation2, but youll need to google it. the xbox is a powerpc with an ati card. its biggest problem is that it doesnt have a hard disk (unlike ps2 and xbox) I'm guessing you mean't GameCube instead of xbox in reference to powerpc and ati card :) Here's a link for those who are interested : http://www.gc-linux.org/ Shane -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
Hi all, There should be no need to mod the box anymore. I personally have not done it, but it looks pretty straight forward. See: http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ Have a Great day!!! -- Dave Peters On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:01:19PM +1000, Michael Fox wrote: Im ok will running it but i dont have a modded xbox and I know you can install it with out opening the box. I just dont have the software to do that and wondering if any one does? You certain you can install it without a mod, from what I understand you need the xbox modded. However I guess I could be lacking in this area, considering I don't have one nor attempted myself. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
quote who=Rick Welykochy Pardon my ignorance, but why did MS deploy the Xbox using Linux instead of one of their own operating systems, perhaps Windows CE? Is this a tacit admission by them that their own offerings are not up to scratch in the gaming dept? Er, they certainly didn't ship Linux. It's a half-baked CE/NT mish-mash. - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ World domination is a community responsibility. - Michael Hall, LinuxPlanet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
On Thu, May 06, 2004, Rick Welykochy wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but why did MS deploy the Xbox using Linux instead of one of their own operating systems, perhaps Windows CE? They didn't. As I understand it, the xbox runs something much like the Win2K kernel. Since the xbox is largely known hardware with a custom bios, Linux is installable on it if you utilise various tricks. Is this a tacit admission by them that their own offerings are not up to scratch in the gaming dept? Evidently not. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
the xbox is basically just a pc. i believe its a celeron with an nvidia video card the interfaces are just usb with different plugs, ethernet card, ide with hard disks so throw a bunch of monkeys (or even better, hackers* with too much time) in a room with an xbox and some linux sources and sooner or later... viola xbox linux. remember that linux is also on playstation2 (could also be on one) dreamcast and xbox as is netbsd etc. i believe sony helped get linux going on playstation2, but youll need to google it. the xbox is a powerpc with an ati card. its biggest problem is that it doesnt have a hard disk (unlike ps2 and xbox) Dean * note the use of the word hackers used correctly in this email. -Original Message- From: Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox On Thu, May 06, 2004, Rick Welykochy wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but why did MS deploy the Xbox using Linux instead of one of their own operating systems, perhaps Windows CE? They didn't. As I understand it, the xbox runs something much like the Win2K kernel. Since the xbox is largely known hardware with a custom bios, Linux is installable on it if you utilise various tricks. Is this a tacit admission by them that their own offerings are not up to scratch in the gaming dept? Evidently not. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
Dean Hamstead wrote: i believe sony helped get linux going on playstation2, but youll need to google it. the xbox is a powerpc with an ati card. its biggest problem is that it doesnt have a hard disk (unlike ps2 and xbox) I'm guessing you mean't GameCube instead of xbox in reference to powerpc and ati card :) Here's a link for those who are interested : http://www.gc-linux.org/ Shane -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
quote who=Dean Hamstead the xbox is a powerpc with an ati card. its biggest problem is that it doesnt have a hard disk (unlike ps2 and xbox) [ Dean meant to say xbox2 first up in this sentence, just to clarify. :-) ] - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ Ever since GNOME development began, I have urged people to aim to make it as good as the Macintosh. To try to be like Windows is to try for second-best. - Richard Stallman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
You could try http://www.dynebolic.org/ it is a live CD that boots Linux on a modded XBox HEre is the blurb from the website You don't need to install anything, you don't even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you'll get back true love ;^) dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software! dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more. It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters. Im considering installing linux on an xbox I have and I was wondering if there might be some one who can give me a hand setting it up. I would like to do the software install that is mentioned on the xbox page on source forge. But i cant find the mech game. If there is some one who can give me a hand in sydney let me know. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html ---Safe Stamp--- Your Anti-virus Service scanned this email. It is safe from known viruses. For more information regarding this service, please contact your service provider. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
Im ok will running it but i dont have a modded xbox and I know you can install it with out opening the box. I just dont have the software to do that and wondering if any one does? On 05/05/2004, at 11:03 AM, Andrewd wrote: You could try http://www.dynebolic.org/ it is a live CD that boots Linux on a modded XBox HEre is the blurb from the website You don't need to install anything, you don't even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you'll get back true love ;^) dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software! dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more. It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters. Im considering installing linux on an xbox I have and I was wondering if there might be some one who can give me a hand setting it up. I would like to do the software install that is mentioned on the xbox page on source forge. But i cant find the mech game. If there is some one who can give me a hand in sydney let me know. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html ---Safe Stamp--- Your Anti-virus Service scanned this email. It is safe from known viruses. For more information regarding this service, please contact your service provider. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox
Im ok will running it but i dont have a modded xbox and I know you can install it with out opening the box. I just dont have the software to do that and wondering if any one does? You certain you can install it without a mod, from what I understand you need the xbox modded. However I guess I could be lacking in this area, considering I don't have one nor attempted myself. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
