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  From: Robert Mibus <mibus@bigpond.com>
  To  : Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  Date: 31 May 2002 17:51:15 +0930

RE: Linux on Xbox

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 09:35, Anthony Symons wrote:
> That remains to be seen as its (mostly) not written yet. They shouldnt
> have to though, as they plan to properly support the xbox fatx
> filesystem.
I looked into it a couple of weeks ago, the plan is to run a loadlin
style setup, with the root filesystem a file on the FATX fs on the HDD.
</tech>

ie. it won't wipe anything, at least not on purpose :-)

> Ant
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 21:26, Richard Russell wrote:
> > > Also, if you share your home with less faithful linux users, 
> > > there's always the risk that they'll go out and rent or buy 
> > > xbox games anyway .. 
> > 
> > I think that putting Linux on it would wipe the original XBoxOS (or
> > whatever it is -- Windows XB?), or render it inoperative... Though I
> > couldn't find anything that said that ... 

HTH;
mibus

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