Here's the deal. I'm still monkeying with different medias and whatnot, but:
I have a freshly modded 1.0 xbox with a thomson. I put in a xecuter2.6CE, flashed with a modified xecuter bios(FrostyTheSnowMan's vga bios, as my only option is VGA) which works fine. Actual games *will* load and shockingly a DVD+R of RTCW.
Sadly, I can't for the life of me at this point get a god-damn dashboard installed. every CDR and DVD+R I throw at it that i have is unrecognised.
I seem to remember when I modded 2 xboxes 4 years ago, I stuck the HDDs into my computer to install a dashboard. I can't find any information on it though...anyone happen to know how you do that?