Debian-squeeze
Install Debian 6 "Squeeze" from the Gentoo LiveCD
gnome Issue Resolved
WARNING: This script will WIPE your Xbox 360 internal harddisk (/dev/sda) and install Debian 6 "Squeeze"
If you have XeXmenu or another dashboard homebrew on that drive, you will loose it all: Follow these instructions only if you understand what you are doing.
I new boot disk that would allow the booting of a USB harddisk would ease the risk of ruining your 360 harddrive.
debian_squeeze.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://file.libxenon.org/free60/linux/script/debian_squeeze.sh sh ./debian_squeeze.sh
Reboot the 360 when you are told. Boot with http://file.libxenon.org/latest_kern, supply correct "root=" parameter via kboot.conf (*kboot currently only supported via xell-reloaded-testing builds), boot the kernel/system and login as root. You will be asked to set new password. 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. If the display is garbled use 1024x768.
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 (1024x768 if garbled)
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.
After that go back to gnome by typing Ctrl+Alt+F7.
Reboot X by typing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
debian_squeeze.sh
#!/bin/bash # set the date to anything except 1/1/1970 since this causes issues # time is now also set after first boot by .bashrc script below date -s 1/1/2011 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 sfdisk /dev/sda << EOF ,124,S ,,L EOF mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2 mkswap /dev/sda1 sync; sync; sync swapon /dev/sda1 mkdir /mnt/debian mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/debian cd /mnt/debian mkdir /mnt/debian/work cd /mnt/debian/work wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.38_all.deb ar -xf debootstrap_1.0.38_all.deb cd /mnt/debian zcat < /mnt/debian/work/data.tar.gz | tar xv cp /mnt/debian/usr/sbin/debootstrap /mnt/debian/usr/share/debootstrap export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=/mnt/debian/usr/share/debootstrap export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/debian/usr/share/debootstrap debootstrap --arch powerpc squeeze /mnt/debian ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ echo Xenon > /mnt/debian/etc/hostname cat > /mnt/debian/etc/fstab << EOF /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 EOF cat > /mnt/debian/etc/network/interfaces << EOF iface lo inet loopback auto lo auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp EOF cat > /mnt/debian/etc/apt/sources.list << EOF deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free EOF #Set a root password without user-prompt chroot /mnt/debian chroot /mnt/ubuntu echo "root:xbox" | chroot /mnt/ubuntu /usr/sbin/chpasswd exit cp /mnt/debian/root/.bashrc /mnt/debian/root/.bashrc.orginal cat >> /mnt/debian/root/.bashrc << EOF passwd apt-get update apt-get install ntp wget -y --force-yes apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse -y --force-yes apt-get install gdm -y apt-get install build-essential openssh-server console-tools -y --force-yes cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ rm -r -f * wget -O xenosfb_drv.so http://file.libxenon.org/free60/linux/xenosfb/xenosfb_drv.so_squeeze cd /etc/X11/ rm -r -f xorg.conf wget http://file.libxenon.org/free60/linux/xenosfb/xorg.conf mkdir /lib/modules/$(uname -r) touch /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep echo "" > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom sed -i '/security/ a\AllowRoot=true' /etc/gdm/gdm.conf sed -i 's/#LEDS=+num/LEDS=+num/' /etc/console-tools/config rm /root/.bashrc mv /root/.bashrc.orginal /root/.bashrc /etc/init.d/gdm start EOF echo "Base installation completed." echo "To finish the installation: Reboot and load the kernel with correct root= params." echo "The install may take up to two hours, depending on your internet connection"