Topic: Damn Small Linux Port (Read 1018 times)

Sleepy_Sentry · « **Reply #30 on:** February 28, 2005, 09:27:00 AM »

I don't know much about compiling Linux and stuff like that and haven't put Linux on my Xbox yet but I would still like to help. If you want, I can go around the Internet looking for people to help. Also, if you guys would like free webhosting for a website I can do that too. The specs of my hosting are:
1 gig of space
25 gigs of data transfer
at least 25 (could be more) email accounts and ftp clients
a load of other features!

I already have a website there but I don't think adding another one will be hard. Someone would have to buy a domain or register a free domain referrer.

I think dsl on Xbox would be great!

Keo-Keo · « **Reply #31 on:** March 01, 2005, 08:24:00 AM »

QUOTE(Sleepy_Sentry @ Feb 28 2005, 03:57 PM)

I don't know much about compiling Linux and stuff like that and haven't put Linux on my Xbox yet but I would still like to help. If you want, I can go around the Internet looking for people to help. Also, if you guys would like free webhosting for a website I can do that too. The specs of my hosting are:
1 gig of space
25 gigs of data transfer
at least 25 (could be more) email accounts and ftp clients
a load of other features!

I already have a website there but I don't think adding another one will be hard. Someone would have to buy a domain or register a free domain referrer.

I think dsl on Xbox would be great!

Does this have shell access if so it might come in handy if i decide to take up the project..

Samurai Waffle · « **Reply #32 on:** March 08, 2005, 06:56:00 AM »

Once again don't want this to die, keep up the work

greenfellow · « **Reply #33 on:** March 09, 2005, 05:02:00 PM »

Unfortunately while a lot of people seem to be interested in this we lack people with the required skills to help so if you've got the experiance give us a shout

chadkeck · « **Reply #34 on:** March 10, 2005, 10:10:00 AM »

Hello.
DSL would be great to the Xbox and I am lending my support by promising hosting by my hoster. I have extra space and bandwidth I don't use so it should go to a good cause. Here's the specifics:
Web Page
500MB of disk space (more if you need it)
Shell access (Linux telnet and SSH)
FTP access
Healthy share of my 120GB/month bandwidth
Email accounts (uses squirrel mail, but has IMAP

)

All for free to whoever will put a distro up. So yea of course this is only for the development team.

Email me [email protected] or [email protected] if you need this.

greenfellow · « **Reply #35 on:** March 10, 2005, 04:08:00 PM »

that's a very nice gesture chadkick might just take you up on that.

I'm gonna be fooling around with it some more today. The main problem is getting the bootloader to do it's job.. I am not all that well versed with linux so this is a learning experiance. If you've got any experiance what we need to do is take the damn small linux iso, extract it and put it all into a rootfs type of file (which I'm not entirely sure how to do) and then we need to get the bootloader to see it and start loading it.

after that we can see about adding xbox specific drivers and make everything run smoothly but a consol is our immediate goal.

So if you feel like playing around with it go for it and tell me of your progress

big_xbox_n00bie · « **Reply #36 on:** March 11, 2005, 11:46:00 AM »

But i know f**k all about linux unfortuantly, although i make a great bug finder/tester.

Drop me a pm if you need me

Good luck guys!

-BxN

friedgold · « **Reply #37 on:** March 11, 2005, 04:49:00 PM »

Been messing around with this today

Managed to recompile the kernel and edit the initrd of Damn Small Linux so that the bootloader loads
and accesses the KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX image. Currently messing around with configuration files to try get it booting into X.

If anyone else is working on this and wants to know what steps I've taken to get this far I'll happily post more info.

big_xbox_n00bie · « **Reply #38 on:** March 11, 2005, 07:13:00 PM »

Would there be a way to nest it like dyne or run it just off hdd because thats what i'd really like, a small enough linux to go on a stock hdd without the extra crap.

-BxN

greenfellow · « **Reply #39 on:** March 11, 2005, 08:45:00 PM »

good work friedgold please post those steps if you would, what problems are you running into with x?

according to the documentation this version of x "is a combo of Debian packages and the Kdrive Xvesa and Xfbdev servers. It works beautifully on most computers but it runs slower than what most Linux users are use to. That's the cost of keeping it all small and lite."

hmm it runs SLOWER well then I think we could sacrifice a few mb for a little bit more speed that's the whole point of this. it's just at 50mb right now anyhow. Lets see about getting a faster version of x goin.

friedgold · « **Reply #40 on:** March 11, 2005, 10:35:00 PM »

Speed wise it seems a lot faster than Xebian 1.1.0 on my box, I guess due to its reduced memory usage.

Apart from the changes absolutly necessary to get it running on the Xbox, I haven't
changed the configuration of Damn Small Linux at all so all the applications are the same as the PC
version

What I was planning on doing was getting what I've done hosted somewhere as soon as possible so people can
test it, and anyone else who wants to get involved can see what I've done so far.

friedgold · « **Reply #41 on:** March 11, 2005, 11:31:00 PM »

Greenfellow,

Here the steps I needed to get Damn Small linux booting on the XBOX (after a LOT of trial and error)

- Download Kernel sources (2.4.29)

- Download XBOX-linux source (from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/) and apply to kernel source

- Apply knoppix patch to kernel source (available on /usr/src on knoppix cd)

- Compile kernel using kernel.config example from the xbox-linux source but with dev fs support off

- Download cloop source (the filesystem Damn Small Linux uses) and compile against above kernel to
get cloop.o module

- Download Damn Small Linux

on the DSL cd there are 2 important files

   /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz      initial ram disk
   /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX            Damn Small Linux filesystem

/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is a compressed filesystem which the kernel cannot read this initally, so the kernel loads minirt24.gz first, which contains the cloop.o module needed to mount /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, and then DSL can boot from there. You can access minirt24.gz in linux by using

gunzip minirt24.gz
mount -o loop minirt24 /some/dir

To make changes to /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX see http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/160

- Copy cloop.o to /modules on minirt24

- In /linuxrc on minirt24 change:

   BUILTIN_FS="iso9660 ext2 vfat"
   to
   BUILTIN_FS="iso9660 ext2 vfat fatx",
   and add
   # XBOX: Try E,F
   DEVICES="$DEVICES /dev/hda50 /dev/hda55"
   after
   # New: Also try parallel port CD-Roms [for Mike].
   DEVICES="$DEVICES /dev/pcd?".

- Make device nodes for XBOX partitions in /dev on minirt24 using

   mknod hda50 b 3 50
   mknod hda50 b 3 50

- You then need to remaster /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX with the modules for the kernel you've compiled copied to /lib/modules/kernel_version/

I put the minirt24 file and KNOPPIX image into E/KNOPPIX on the XBOX along with the kernel I compiled (renamed to linux24), and then using xcromwell with the configuration file below it boots

kernel /KNOPPIX/linux24-xbox
initrd /KNOPPIX/minirt24-xbox.gz
append init=/etc/init video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr noscsi nofirewire lang=us quiet kbd-reset

Unfortunatly the first thing it does is bring up a setup menu which needs a keyboard. However I got around this by remastering /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX again with a etc/skel/.xserverrc file and now it boots straight in X

chadkeck · « **Reply #42 on:** March 12, 2005, 09:52:00 AM »

Awesome job man.

daveh · « **Reply #43 on:** March 12, 2005, 10:32:00 AM »

could you upload this somewhere so prople can test it

big_xbox_n00bie · « **Reply #44 on:** March 12, 2005, 12:31:00 PM »

Also does it support the xbox pad?

-BxN

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