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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Wourgs <sourcemage AT gmail.com>:
> Dear Source Mages..
>
> I'm writing this letter/mail from an modded Xbox machine using Xebian
> (a version of Debian to Xbox) using the controller as mouse and the
> common USB keyboard. But as you already know, I would rather run
> Source Mage GNU/Linux on this Xbox. This project is started and has
> got the name: Magebox Experiment.
>
> I would like you to be updated and get as much knowledge of this as
> much as I have now, so that some of you hopefully can help me a bit.
>
> The goal: Porting Source Mage to Xbox.
>
> Requirements: The requirements are as follows:
>
> A special .iso image of Source Mage GNU/Linux:

You'll probably have to roll your own ISO, but once the Cauldron scripts
are done that should be fairly easy.

> 1. A patched kernel with one of the kernel patches made by the
> Xbox-Linux team (direct URL to kernel patches:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54192&package_id=1474)

Have you submitted a patch to add that patch to linux-new?

> 2. There must be a linuxboot.cfg file in the root directory of the
> .iso image.. Example on a simple linuxboot.cfg:
>
> title AMeaningfulTitle (max 30 chars)
>
> kernel /path/to/kernelimage
>
> initrd /path/to/initrd
>
> append kbd-reset root=/dev/rootdevice
>
>
> title AnotherMeaningfulTitle (max 30 chars)
>
> kernel /path/to/differentkernelimage
>
> initrd /path/to/differentinitrd
>
> append kbd-reset root=/dev/differentrootdevice
>
>
> default AMeaningfulTitle
>
> 3. A linuxboot.cfg file in the bootable partition..
>
> I'm a bit busy in this week, but I will do the best, I can to get
> further with this projects, and I will be at the IRC server mostly, if
> you have some questions :)
>
> Comments are welcome! Whether they are bad or good.. :)
>
> Sincerely Amel Durakovic (amel & wourgs)

Enjoy the hacking. ;)

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                        |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/             |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @
WSU
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