Xebian looks like it might be the way to go, although I'm not sure if it is
worth the effort to move from the 2.4 kernel to 2.6. Any advice on this?
2009/2/28 Imran Chaudhry <ichaudhry@???>
> >> Hey Everyone,
> >>
> >> I've got an xbox that is sitting around not doing much so I thought I
> >> might like to have it set up as a server. I'd like to run Apache, MySQL,
> >> PHP (for playing around with stuff) but I'd like to keep the media
> >> centre functionality too. What is particularly important is that I'd
> >> still be able to use the remote control, mainly so my girlfriend can use
> >> it without any drama.
> >>
> >> Has anyone had experience setting this kind of thing up? I'm looking for
> >> hints/tips on which OS, partitioning options, application
> >> recommendations, etc. It has been modded and contains a 320GB HDD.
> >>
> >> All suggestions welcome (including alternate hardware that would suffice
> >> and is cheap/green as I think the xbox consumes about 100w when running
> >> flat out <http://www.anandtech.com/Linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2271&p=2>).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Stuart.
> >>
> > http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xebian_HOWTO
>
> Stuart,
>
> I have an Xbox running Xebian and upgraded to Etch, it works pretty
> well but be aware of the following:
>
> - I think the stock Xebian kernel is 2.4. I have a 2.6.8 (i think)
> kernel in mine but I can't remember how I did it. I think some chap
> produced his own Xebian.
> - If run from the loopback device performance is very slow. I
> experimentally tried a Wordpress (PHP, MySQL) install from it and the
> pages were taking 5-10 seconds to load. Install Xebian in a spare
> partition. This might be difficult from the default 8Gb HDD. I've
> dropped a spare 20Gb HDD in mine.
>
> I have mine almost running "headless" in that I can boot the Xbox, it
> boots into the Unleash dashboard where Xebian is the first menu item.
> So I can just press A on the joypad to start Xebian, no monitor/TV
> need be attached. Also this way, you can launch XBMC or anything else,
> as you wanted to keep it.
>
> I also wanted it as internal LAMP box but I also had an idea to
> install Trixbox on it with a Cisco VOIP phone. Trixbox required a
> later kernel and I didn't get around to taking a vanilla kernel.org
> kernel and applying the Xbox patches. I was going to call it TriXBOX
> :)
>
> Im
>
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