Ubuntu

After a weekends worth of time fiddling with tutorials to install ubuntu to the hard drive using the king kong method when using a JTAG, I realized that free60 had an article that someone had deleted on automatically installing ubuntu to the hard drive. Here is what was in /old:

Ubuntu 7.10

Restored from /old by decima7e From Free60

Install Ubuntu 7.10 from the Gentoo LiveCD Gnome Issue Resolved Warning: This script will WIPE your Xbox 360 harddisk (/dev/sda) and install Ubuntu 7.10 ubuntuinstall.sh will create two partitions. 1 GB swap on sda0 and the rest of the disk as a root-filesystem on sda1. Run the script as root from the Gentoo LiveCD v2. You will need a DHCP-server on your network for this script.'

How do I run it? Click "Application > Accessories > Terminal" and type the following commands:

sudo su wget http://www.ep-comps.com/free60/ubuntuinstall.sh sh ./ubuntuinstall.sh

Reboot the 360 when you are told. Boot with This .ISO and login as root. You will be asked to set new password. //If you get any errors related to Xorg here, restart the installation process\\ The rest of the installation will start automatically. The download is about 600Mb. After a while it will ask you to setup the screen resolution, select 1280x768 with the space bar. After it has finished installing and has rebooted into gnome open a new shell by typing Ctrl+Alt+F6 or Ctrl+Alt+F1 and type,

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then follow the instructions below.

1. Attempt to autodetect video hardware? > No

2. X Server Driver: Xenonfb

3. Generic Video Card > Enter

4. Video card’s bus identifier: Press enter for default

5. Amount of memory: Press enter for default

6. Use kernel framebuffer device interface? > Yes

7. Autodetect keyboard layout? > Yes

8. Keyboard layout: us

9. XKB rule set to use: xorg

10. Keyboard model: choose your rule set based on the options

11. Keyboard variant: leave blank if you’re in the U.S.

12. Keyboard options: Leave as default

13. Mouse Protocol: ImPS/2

14. Emulate a 3 button mouse? > Your choice

15. Xorg server modules: Default

16. Write default Files section to configuration file? > Yes

17. Attempt monitor detection? > Yes

18. Use generic monitor if it doesn’t detect it.

19. Video modes to be used by the X server: 1280x768

20. Method for selecting the monitor characteristics: Medium

21. Monitors best video mode: Choose what’s best for your monitor.

22. Write monitor sync ranges to the configuration file? > Yes

23. Desired default color depth in bits: 24.