Hacking Xwhiite-linux v0.1 With GUI

[wolffangalchemist]

Just did that, that's why I said nevermind

On a side note I wish this thing had support for SDHC cards. This would make my Wii the perfect (low end) backup PC

yeah it would be great i think it does support sdhc though.

 

[LightyKD]

I just read wiibrew.com and I'm thinking the same thing too about the SDHC support. I was thinking about geting a 16GB card off of new egg which average about 32 USD. I really want a 32GB but considering my current financial situation, I just cant afford the average 80-130 USD, that's as high as some of my bills XP

 

[IronMask]

Ok...seems like I've been having some similar problems...I will try that command and see if I can get something in there... I don't know why... but it still hasn't gave me any opt to rename these partitions..I mean as long as they are fat16 and ext3 does it matter that they be named? I been trying unmount it to relable and all that... why am I having so many difficulties with ubuntu and these sd cards is beyond me...

 

[wolffangalchemist]

Ok...seems like I've been having some similar problems...I will try that command and see if I can get something in there... I don't know why... but it still hasn't gave me any opt to rename these partitions..I mean as long as they are fat16 and ext3 does it matter that they be named? I been trying unmount it to relable and all that... why am I having so many difficulties with ubuntu and these sd cards is beyond me...

you are trying to label them from within the partition editor right?
i think it does matter cuz the program needs to know which partition to mount and it uses the names to tell the difference.
you can try it though I'm not 100% positive on that.

 

[IronMask]

Yea I tried to relabel them and then it just tries to format it in fat16,fat32,ext2,dext3, or whatever I pick.. but doesn't ask me for a name to label it as? I have managed to copy all the homebrew to the fat16 and the whitelynux files into the ext3 now... Now I am trying to hunt down the kernel.dol/elf I need to launch it... I am definately keeping my fingers crossed that this works...

Thanks for the help...hopefully I come back with better news!

Edited with my results...

I got all I needed copied to each partition and tried launching the linux elf through homebrew,,,it started a bunch of text
then got to Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernal panic - not syncing: No init found Tru passing init= option to Kernel


Now what!? Atleast I got somewhere...

Ok I just re-extracted it back to the ext3 and now it is starting to work... kind of laggy on me but it seems to be functioning... now I just have to figure out some configurations on this to fit my TV,,, which I think I read about previoualy in this thread...

I am so excited... thanks to all who helped and especially the coders and support for working the magic!

As retarted as this may sound to some, anyone game to make a channel.wad for this for faster access?

 

[ekolimits]

Linux wad? that would kick ass! o and no one replied about my question on slax... can i use this to run slax or only the linux that comes bundled in?

 

[goku21temp]

This would make my Wii the perfect (low end) backup PC....

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shame on you misusing the wii like that..

also you can get a 2 Ghz pentium4 pc easily for 120 euro on ebay..(the small desktop ones )

 

[t7g]

Okay, I'm pretty sure the names of your partitions don't matter, it just makes it easier if you have HAL (which the deb distros aren't using) so label or not, i wouldn't worry, though I do have the proper labels on mine (because I used fdisk) ((and wait? don't you set labels when you make the filesystem? whatever, anyways..))

As to the slax question, yes in theory you could just copy slax's root directory to the second partition on your sdcard and in theory, it should work (but you won't be using slax's kernel)

Also, if it expects there to be more than 64mb of memory it's going to be horribly mistaken and you'll probably need to manually edit your fstab

 

[IronMask]

Ok... I go to access some apps thru flux window and they don't work properly... The system is a little laggy as well... I try and close a window made by the app or flux sometimes and it doesn't respond...
I am not displeased at all... I am going to try and figure out how to use VLC media to load off my pc's shared drives to see what happens... that is the biggest thing that attracted me about this hack... seeing that Mplayer for Wii sucks for streaming over lan... and I have been using VLC on all my other machines for quite a while...


Thanks for the help you guys.

Is there anything I can do to not make it run so laggy? The mouse kind of skips when I use it and it doesn't with the wiimote from what I can tell... and the keyboard seems to work fine....

Hope I can get these issues taken care of... so I can throw it on my kid's wii so he can watch all those kiddie movies I have on there and not have to always copy it to a flash drive and load it with the regular Wii Mplayer... just makes life simple to access all media from one source....

As far as the partitiions go... I guess it doesn't matter to name them or not? It seems to work for me now. I had a terrible time configuring the sd card to partition and be able to format it and write to it... it could have been a mixture of the card reader itself and the sd card I am using...

Great hack though! Thanks a million Bart, t7g, wolf, arms, and whoever else I forgot.

 

[LightyKD]

This would make my Wii the perfect (low end) backup PC....

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shame on you misusing the wii like that..

also you can get a 2 Ghz pentium4 pc easily for 120 euro on ebay..(the small desktop ones )

I love exploiting technology

 

[nicksasa]

ok for people having trouble to name the ext3 partition to whiite use this

sudo e2label /dev/mmcblk0p1 whiite

(replace /dev/mmcblk0 with the sd card and with the parition like for my its p1 so use /dev/sdcardp1)

 

[IronMask]

Thanks nicksasa.. I will give that a go next time I load up with ubuntu... I am still native to winxp... I was actually just using the opera browser on the wiilinux... jeez... it is slow as hell... I won't be using that option much.. unless there is some tweak to the ethernet I don't know about for this mod..

I am very pleased to have it up and running though... even though I didnt change the partition names..

hope this is more improved in the future...it looks to be a nice feature for the wii hackers

 

[wolffangalchemist]

Thanks nicksasa.. I will give that a go next time I load up with ubuntu... I am still native to winxp... I was actually just using the opera browser on the wiilinux... jeez... it is slow as hell... I won't be using that option much.. unless there is some tweak to the ethernet I don't know about for this mod..

I am very pleased to have it up and running though... even though I didnt change the partition names..

hope this is more improved in the future...it looks to be a nice feature for the wii hackers

i got a idea you could format a small usb drive(128mb) to Linux swap with partition editor this will give it more memory that is if it works the same as ubuntu it should auto mount it.
i'll try it and post back results.
EDIT: nope doesn't seem to work the drive won't mount.

 

[LightyKD]

is there a way to do virtual memory in this version of linux

 

[wolffangalchemist]

is there a way to do virtual memory in this version of linux

that's what linux swap is.
but i even edited fstab to add the flash drive formated to Linux swap and it won't mount it might be some other trick to it idk anyone know how?

 

[Arm the Homeless]

Just a guess, but you could try making a swap file.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/800MB.swp bs=1024 count=800k

You could change the amount. That makes a blank 800 MB file in the root.

Then

mkswap /800MB.swp; swapon /800MB.swp

 

[wolffangalchemist]

another thing anyway to get a on screen keyboard on Xwhite?
i imagin there is a .deb file out there i could install somewhere.....

 

[nicksasa]

another thing anyway to get a on screen keyboard on Xwhite?
i imagin there is a .deb file out there i could install somewhere.....

try gok http://packages.debian.org/etch/gok

 

[Arm the Homeless]

sudo rm -rf /

sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/

sudo ln -s / /bin/fail

sudo shred -zu /

 

[goku21temp]

that's what linux swap is.
but i even edited fstab to add the flash drive formated to Linux swap and it won't mount it might be some other trick to it idk anyone know how?

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perhaps you could try to make 3 partitions on the SD-card ... one for homebrewloader one for whiite and one for swap...

if you have a 2 gig SD card that shouldn´t be a problem ...