Re: Installing xUbuntu on a different partition?
joojola <joojola <at> users.sourceforge.net>
2006-05-04 10:56:13 GMT
Hi,
First of all, I believe Ubuntu (Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu/XUbuntu) itself
is not created by the community of Ubuntu / Canonical Ltd to run on a Xbox.
You can take a look into the road map of Ubuntu.
The community of Ubuntu / Canonical Ltd offers free downloads of the linux
software Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu (sometimes called XUbuntu).
Ubuntu (Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu/XUbuntu) is based on GNU Debian.
Because I like Ubuntu, there was a Xbox and there was time to do I ported
Ubuntu to Xbox.
So, xUbuntu was born as a system without x-window-system.
Because of the limitations of Xbox (64 MB RAM) and slow running the
graphical environment of KDE and GNOME the desktop Xfce4 environment was
the best alternative.
By the way, Gentoox gets a better performance because the graphical
environment of KDE is compiled for Xbox.
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The installing process of xUbuntu on Xbox is nearly the same as of Xebian
distro.
Linux itself can not run natively on *fatx* formated partitions, you need
special formated partitions (like ext2, ext3, reiserfs).
But, you can format a filedisk or natively a harddisk with the needed
filesystem. The perfomance of native harddisk installation is better.
The *Seagate* harddisk of Xbox is 10 GB and the partition E ends at 8 GB so
you can get a extra partition F of 2 GB.
If there is a partition F you have two options:
-> format the full partition F with ext3-filesystem (with a swap-partition
inside) and run linux natively from harddisk. The linux starter-file is on
partition E. The partition F seems to be 0 MB size, but it is not.
If you have replaced the harddisk of Xbox with another harddisk you get more
space than 2 GB. Because, the partition F is full formated with one
swap-partition and the rest with *ext3* you have the problem all data on
former *fatx*-formated partition F are trashed.
-> format partition F with fatx-filesystem. Copy the directory *ubuntu* from
partition E to partition F. Manage to change the path in *linuxboot.cfg*
from E to F. Manage to change the path to swap-file in */etc/fstab* from
e/ubuntu to f/ubuntu.
In principle, the process of installing xUbuntu inside filedisk on partition
F is formal nearly the same as of partition E. So, if you have programming
skills take a look into the installer script (Xbox section) for automatic
control.
Cio.
Q wrote:
> NM... Out of curiosity (I just had to see what would happen) I ran the
> Xubuntu install script and chose to install it on my F partition. It turns
> out the guys warnings about his script 'not being perfect' and about it
> deleting data were accurate. It deleted the entire contents of my F:
> partition - and then bitched that it couldn't mount the partition 'because
> it wasn't a fatx partition'. Of course it wasn't a fatX partition, because
> the script deleted the fatX partition and reformatted it as EXT3 - which
> it then promptly forgot it had done.
>
> It isn't just 'not perfect' it sucks!
>
> Which is a shame really, as Xubuntu itself is very pretty to look at and
> very easy to use.
>
> Oh well I guess I will just have to look at the alternatives...
>
> GJ
>
> Hi I have installed XUbuntu on my Xbox - and so far it seems great.
>
> The only issue I have encountered is that the partition size is tiny (only
> about 4GB on my E:drive). However I have over 180GB on my F: drive and I
> would very much like tot install it there instead.
>
> However I do not want to partition the drive and loose all of the data on
> my F: drive. I would be happy if I could use perhaps 20GB or so of my F:
> partition.
>
> There are two installation options offered by Xubuntu. Neither are very
> easy to read I'm afraid - but one essentially says something along the
> lines of installing as a 'savegame file' (again I'm not sure what this
> refers to) while the other warns that it will take over the entire F:
> partition and wipe all the data. As I do not wish at all to loose all of
> my data on the F: drive, I chose the first option.
>
> Is there perhaps a way to edit the script (which is called xUbuntuInstall)
> so that it will use the same non destructive process to install itself on
> the F drive instead of the E drive, while taking up a bigger amount of
> space?
>
> GJ
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