boxee re purposing

Originally Posted by SunnyJim well that is what i am TRYING to do which is why i am here asking for advice. i tried installing alpine linux but ran into problems possibly with squashfs version incompatibility problems

Sounds like we're getting somewhere.
You should post full details if you want to solve this. See the first link in my signature and also this.

and yes squashfs is a thing for small systems made like 15-20 years ago so sue me i like a challenge.

Nothing wrong with squashfs, afaik every Linux installation medium (.iso) uses this.

The problem is that chrooting into alpine linux root installed onto the boxee primitive drive is just that a hack. I honestly don't know if it will even be possible to
use usb to serial adaptors and a null modem cable to install another distro onto this old system although i do know that a small distro like puppy linux slacko or tiny core linux
or maybe preferably alpine linux (which i know DOES have a fairly recent version of kodi would fit the bill) or even if these particular distros will install that way or even have support
for it. Although i DO know that slackware might be installed using said cable setup this is such a small drive 1 GiG ram and 1 GiG main drive some sort of usb solid state drive might have to be used
in addition to the system drive. So i am in the process of looking into it and so far i have not even been able to register to login to the sites of these distros. Maybe these guys haven't paid
their bandwidth bills i don't know. Does anyone know more about using serial port adaptors and a null modem cable to install linux on an embedded system like the one that i have here?
I am referencing this page:
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ha...l_installation
Granted this is a bit obscure and most people will just use a usb boot thumbdrive to install but i do not have this option.

^ You really have to work on your writing style, this is both visually hard to read, and written in a flow of consciousness style not suited for technical problems.

I looked a little deeper now, I sum up: boxee use some sort of hardcoded kernel signing that makes it impossible (?) to actually install anything else on there; all the hacks mentioned so far somehow manage to build a better system onto that, but none actually manages to install a current kernel/distro.
People have been struggling with this for almost 10 years; whatever options there are, I'm sure they're listed here

Why do you think a serial cable will help here? Is it one of the options listed on the boxee wiki?

Ok i didn't know about the boxee wiki i will have to take a look at it. Yep it pretty much looks like it might be a lost cause for re-purposing although i am sure
that there MIGHT be a way no one has found a way as of yet. Yeah and sorry for the confusion, going through some stuff right now. At least i know what i am up against.
Why hasn't the free software foundation or some similar organization gone after d-link and friends for this i wonder. Is it money?

You might want to re-read your own post #13, on both points.