Just a quick note to those willing to try to help.  I originally tried 
to help Brian from one of my Linux boxen and ran into troubles and 
figured some things out.   With a stock Red Hat 9 there is no FATX 
support and the scripts at the mechinstaller site do not work.   I did 
quite a bit of reading and discovered you could either replace some key 
tools like the vfat modules and make this work.  You might also have to 
have the latest 2.5 kernel or a 2.6 release candidate.   I'm not a 
kernel junkie like some and I didn't have the time to give this project 
more effort.  It was interesting, yet I have no way of testing the 
result (no Xbox) so I gave up and gave the info I had to Brian.

I'm a little under the weather today so I may sound spacey.  Last I read 
the 2.6 kernel will have builtin support for reading and writing FATX.

I'm going back to bed now.
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By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java do thoughts acquire speed,  hands 
acquire shaking,  the shaking becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion.