********************************************************************** This is basically just another little linux distro. Build for the special needs us xbox softmodders have. It can be usefull for modchip users aswell. I found the need for such a distro since the windows-based tools to access fatx-drives suck! No offence to the authors but the are rather buggy and crash frequently on people. However, most people are not very familiar with linux - sad in my opinion but true. Therefore I include a tool in this distributions that automates most of the tasks when dealing with xbox HD management. Read readme_xboxhdm.txt for more info on this. For Copying, Renaming, Moving, Deleting ... files I included a script that automatically mounts your linux CDROM aswell as the C- and E- partition of your xbox HD (if present on primary master). A semi-graphical tool (Midnight-Commander) will boot that will startup with a tabbed (two-windows) view with the content of your linux CDROM on the left and the content of the xbox HD on the right. The F-keys are used to manipulate files. This distro is built around the vanilla-2.4.25 kernel with the latest fatx-patches from xbox-linux as of April 6 2004. The basis tools are provided by busybox. Furthermore I included : mkfs.fatx (from xboxdumper), xboxhd (the hd management script), lynx (console-based web-browser) and the eject tool. I included framebuffer support in the kernel as well as fat32, etx2, ext3,reiserfs,jfs and ntfs (read-only) support. I also tried to inlude most common nic-drivers so propably you have internet connection aswell. Note : Some users have experienced problems when running this distro on a PC with less than 64 Mb. Thanks to everybody I borrowed code from... Most init-scripts are from the xlinux distro. Thanks to xbox-linux for their fatx-patches. and their hdkey generation algorithm (SpeedBump, Franz Lehner,...) Thanks to all testers who helped discovering bugs. Hope this is of some use. ldots **********************************************************************