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Getting Started with Xbox Linux
by Michael Steil, 8 October 2002 ( Updated 24 May 2003)
This article is an introductory overview of installing the Mandrake Linux operating system on your Xbox.
Note: The Xbox Mandrake distribution has not been updated in a while and is currently somewhat out-of-sync with the latest Xbox-specific developments. As of now, both Ed´s Debian and Shallax´s Gentoox come with a more up-to-date version of the Xbox-patched kernel and drivers, and they also have more feature-rich installers than Mandrake, especially when it comes to FATX support. If you choose to install the current release of Xbox Mandrake, it is recommended that you compile a new kernel and new drivers for it manually from the kernel patches which are available in the CVS. More information about this can be found on the downloads page.
What you get
We provide an installation CD that installs Mandrake Linux 9 with Gnome, KDE and everything onto your Xbox hard disk, with only slight modifications. This Linux installation behaves exactly like every PC installation of Mandrake Linux 9.
You can browse the internet, write e-mail, work on text or spreadsheet documents, listen to music, or, if you install additional software packages from the official Mandrake 9 set or the internet, you can do a million other things.
Linux installs into unused space on your Xbox hard disk, so you will still be able to play games. If you turn on an Xbox with Linux in the unused space, the Xbox behaves just like without Linux. But if you insert the Linux boot CD, a Linux boot from the hard disk will be initiated.
Please note that most Xbox DVD drives do not read CD-Rs and are very picky about CD-RWs. This is a problem with the drive itself and not a fault of Linux.
What you will need
In order to run Linux, you need an Xbox with a modchip installed. Any modchip will do, there is no difference between the mod chips for this method. You will also need a keyboard and a mouse connected to your Xbox. The Xbox has four USB ports ( the ports for the gamepads), but these have a non-standard connector, so you need an adapter. There´s an article on how to build such an adapter ( it´s trivial!) on this website. If you want to connect a USB keyboard an a USB mouse directly, you need two of these adapters. If you have a keyboard with a built-in mouse, a keyboard with its own mouse connectivity or the keyboard and the mouse connected to a hub, you only need one adapter.
Of course you also need the file Xbox-Linux-Manrake-9.zip, which contains the installation ISO and the boot ISO, both of which you have to write to a CD-RW or DVD-RW. Please note that the Xbox is very picky about CD/DVD media, slow CD-RW ( 2x or 4x) have proven to be most compatible with the Xbox drive. It is okay if you have only one working CD-RW.
How to install
As always, before installing a new operating system you should always backup your data! There is a tutorial on how to backup your Xbox hard disk with a PC running Linux on this website. You can also backup the hard disk contents through the network connection when you have booted from the installation CD, if you have good Linux knowledge.
To install Xbox Linux Mandrake 9, connect your keyboard ( and mouse) to the Xbox, insert the Boot CD into the Xbox DVD drive and restart the Xbox. PAL users should not run the CD from the dashboard, as they may get garbled screen contents. When the CD has finished booting, enter " install8", if you have an 8 GB hard drive, or " install" if you have a 10 GB or a replacement hard drive. For details on where exactly Linux will be installed on your hard disk, please read the Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 README.
After about ten minutes, the installation will be finished. Now replace the media in the DVD drive with the Xbox Linux Boot CD. Again, PAL users should not run this CD from the dashboard. Linux should boot now, and the login screen should appear. Enter " guest" as login name with the password " guest". ( The root password is " xbox".) Networking is set up as 192.168.0.64/255.255.255.0 by default, but no method to login remotely has been enabled, just as in the Mandrake Linux 9 stanard installation. You can change all this in the Mandrake Control Center.
