Semi-Linux Question (XBMC, XBox modding)

[Travis Roy]

I've been thinking about putting XBox Media Center on my old XBox for
some time now. I've been doing some poking around and think a softmod
would be best since I don't care about running trainers or even
playing games on it at all.

I was curious if anybody on the list has done this? I've been reading
about some of the tools to do this mod. One that looked interesting
was XBoxHDM. I saw on some of the forums that this lets you build an
xbox drive from scratch. Can I use that on a spare drive I have and
throw that in my XBox? I've read that the whole HD locking thing only
has to do with saved games and other game related stuff I don't care
much about.

If you'd rather reply to me off list because you don't think this fits
to well with the list, that's fine too.

Thanks in advance.

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Travis Roy