you can't post first

relaly people, why do you work so hard to get the first post, what do you acheive? its one of my biggest petpeeves!!

you can also back up to an external usb drive.

Does wifi work on this

On the 60GB PS3...Yes



On linux...not sure

Did you get the following status report in the previous step?



Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 1 8584 8790000 83

/dev/sda2 8585 10239 1694720 82

Why is this even a consideration? What's the point? Why is it necessary to install any kind of OS on a gaming console and for what purpose? I know I'm stupid, but I still need to ask the question.

You mentioned your mate wanted it for the media player. Being completely new to Linux as well, how does this work? Do you install your own media player (like VLC or something) and then just use that? That'd be so cool if you could.

I don't have one of the PS3s, but I'm curious how booting works after an OS is loaded on the hard drive. Is it just a simple "boot game disc if present; else boot hard disk if valid" logic?

I havn't installed on a ps3, but come on. Dependency Hell was an issue years ago. I've been using Fedora now for a year and NEVER have had any type of dependency problems. You're pros about Gentoo are generally ok, but I would never install it for a person that wants something easy to maintain. Unless you're going to be there all the time to help him out I vote that it was a bad choice.

Does ur tv half to be HD for the gui interface to work Like yellow dog? or will the gui work on any old tv?

Thxs

yeah i dunno if vlc has a ppc port but pretty much any media software that has a ppc port will run. Wikipedia has a list of media players. There is 1000 and it shows what os and 64bit y/n. Almost any of them that run on MAC and Linux will work fine on ps3. The idea is you can install samba and play movies off windows shares (or linux ones if your as cool as me;)

No doubt - same here. I have had an *occasional* dependency issue - none that were not pretty easily resolved. And if you just can install something with yum or rpm (talk about **EASY***) then we just compile from source. Like Gentoo, but on a much smaller and faster scale. Gentoo is not for regular users but for system tinkerers. Gentoo users seem to exist in their own peculiar fanboy reality that it's easy to install and run it. Right along with Slackware - piece of cake. NOT. I've recently started teaching a newb on the finer points of linux and why it's so great as a sysadmin tool - she installed her FC6 workstation first time out, with very very little input/help from me. Go ahead Gentoo fans, start your flames now as that is the other thing we have come to expect from you :)

You specify the resolution you'd like to use during the intial install process. So no, it does not have to be an HD television.

make it so i can have this and YDL on the same ps3? so lke i can chose which one i wan to boot up? aand is this more SDTV friendly?

Well, instead of installing X, I figured I'd keep it framebuffer and take a look at some of the frame buffer examples that sony provides. In about 4 hours, I had ported Mercury Game Engine to the PS3. Granted when you crank the resolution, the performance is pretty poor, I still had a fair amount of fun without using X or mesa.



http://cnlohr.livejournal.com/9934.html

so this means like I can have microsoft office and WinRAR and Azureus on my PS3?!?!

I think I've got the same problem - it boots up, you can press ctrl+d (which results in reboot) or you can type the password you put in. If you use the password you're thrown at the shell, but I cant' figure out how to do anything since the root filesystem is mounted read-only.

I HAVE THE ADD ON CD AND EVERYTHING THE SNAPSHOT , The Two Bz2 Files Both Zipped Up As Bz2 Files Packed I Havent Ever Unpacked Them I Have The otheros.self and otheros.bld in the ps3 folder in the folder inside that called otheros and the two files r in there i am able to partition it get through all those commands inside the kboot but then once i get to the mounting process or whatever it doesnt find anything is there something i am missing in the above list of things i need am i doing something wrong can some one please help me with this i have firmware 1.32 and i am 12 and i have been doing this homebrew stuff on the psp the past 2 years i have firmware 1.50 on that with all the device hook, eloders every hack pretty much made for it i have installed i have 3 4gb cards for it but for the ps3 i am using my psp for all the files to install and that stuff and using usb connection i have also tried using a sandisk 2gb usb flash drive nothings working please help me homebrewis my life and i have tried installing fedora core 5 also and had issues with burning the iso file correct i have tried it so many times and get done burning it on the 4.7 dvd i am burning it using toast 7 titanium. with an external sony dvd+rw/+r it runs through usb 2.0 but my usb 2.0 ports need to be replaced so its hooked in to a usb port on my macintosh powermac g4 with 1.32 gb sdram a 40 gb and 200gb harddrive in it i have leopard cracked and installed on hear and i have cracked virtual pc so i have vista installed and cracked in there my crack and vista was made to run at full speed thinking i have an intel core duo 2 processor and my g4 is 867 mhz fast while vista runs at about 1.0ghz so anyone can help thank u and please i also have a macpro, macbook, ibook g4 and g3 if tht helps i also have a pc thats getting fixed might take a while whole things fried out so please and thank u idont no what i am doing wrong though with this linux thing its the first issue i cant solve because i have been one of the top hackers since i got a psp Please and thank you i can probally help ya with ay issues u have with anything else except linux on the ps3 add my ps3 name TEM94

» GENTOO IS SO ANNYOYING



I HAVE THE ADD ON CD AND EVERYTHING THE SNAPSHOT , The Two Bz2 Files Both Zipped Up As Bz2 Files Packed I Havent Ever Unpacked Them I Have The otheros.self and otheros.bld in the ps3 folder in the folder inside that called otheros and the two files r in there i am able to partition it get through all those commands inside the kboot but then once i get to the mounting process or whatever it doesnt find anything is there something i am missing in the above list of things i need am i doing something wrong can some one please help me with this i have firmware 1.32 and i am 12 and i have been doing this homebrew stuff on the psp the past 2 years i have firmware 1.50 on that with all the device hook, eloders every hack pretty much made for it i have installed i have 3 4gb cards for it but for the ps3 i am using my psp for all the files to install and that stuff and using usb connection i have also tried using a sandisk 2gb usb flash drive nothings working please help me homebrewis my life and i have tried installing fedora core 5 also and had issues with burning the iso file correct i have tried it so many times and get done burning it on the 4.7 dvd i am burning it using toast 7 titanium. with an external sony dvd+rw/+r it runs through usb 2.0 but my usb 2.0 ports need to be replaced so its hooked in to a usb port on my macintosh powermac g4 with 1.32 gb sdram a 40 gb and 200gb harddrive in it i have leopard cracked and installed on hear and i have cracked virtual pc so i have vista installed and cracked in there my crack and vista was made to run at full speed thinking i have an intel core duo 2 processor and my g4 is 867 mhz fast while vista runs at about 1.0ghz so anyone can help thank u and please i also have a macpro, macbook, ibook g4 and g3 if tht helps i also have a pc thats getting fixed might take a while whole things fried out so please and thank u idont no what i am doing wrong though with this linux thing its the first issue i cant solve because i have been one of the top hackers since i got a psp Please and thank you i can probally help ya with ay issues u have with anything else except linux on the ps3 add my ps3 name TEM94

Check the section under fstab - there was a section that wasn't bolded before, which is now, that needs to be changed, regardless of your hard drive size.

Learn how to write English, moron. Also, I can't resist the temptation to point a finger and laugh hysterically at you:



"vista was made to run at full speed thinking i have an intel core duo 2 processor and my g4 is 867 mhz fast while vista runs at about 1.0ghz"



BWUHAHAHAHAHAHA



Turn your computers off, get out of your room, see sunlight, go to school, learn something useful.

You might want to think about using at least a little punctuation, so that people don't assume you have some sort of learning disability. The use of proper English and spelling are important if you actually want to be taken seriously.



If you want to write an OS that's more than a joke, you need to go to college and study computer science. Where exactly do you think Linus Torvalds was and what was he doing when he created the first release of Linux?



Also, as someone that has been programming professionally for over 25 year, I sincerely doubt you actually understand what "hacking" really means. Hint: it's not following tutorials on the net and repeating things everyone else has already done.



If you want to be known as a real hacker, don't call yourself one. Do something unique and let the work speak for itself.

Maybe you guys should practice on PC's. I've never had a hard time getting gentoo installed... Especially not on the PS3 where all the drivers come with the kernel they provide. It contains about everything you'd need to do. About the only thing you have to go out of your way for is the SPUFS stuff, which I haven't gotten to install correctly (unless I use the RPMs).



If you have specific problems, you can try posting them and we can troubleshoot...