You may be wondering why this has taken so long... Well, I'll let you in on what I've been doing.

I got the F drive working fine, but I wasnt satisfied with just that so I decided to (finally) add native filesystem support (where the F drive is taken over by a reiserfs partition). I'm currently in the final testing phase of this new feature. To be perfectly honest, I can't see it failing... but we'll see - theres always something to go wrong.

I checked xbox-scene.com today (as I do every day) and noticed a new Cromwell, saw "Fixed" and "USB" on the same line and instantly got to work on hacking it for Gentoox. It works flawlessly. Mouse works every time, keyboard works, booting Linux works. Apparently this Cromwell also supports 64mb/128mb autodetection but I'm unable to test this. Initially I'll only release a new "Pro" version and I'll try to get some 128mb box owners to test it out for me. Xromwell also works! I've now re-enabled Xpad-rumble-on-startup for those "blind" system administrators.

I've worked solid all day on this and it looks set to be the best installer that Gentoox has ever had!

Watch this space for more details!