[slackintosh-users] Re: Playstation 3
- From: "Marco Bonetti" <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:27:31 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, January 30, 2008 16:07, Dan Pasanen wrote:
> Hello, hopefully I'm sending this to the right address.
don't worry :)
> I'm just wondering if anyone out there has successfully installed
> slackintosh, or some kind of a derivative of it on a Playstation 3.
Do we have derivatives?!? ;-)
Serious talk: Playstation 3 is very well supported by linux kernel, I've
take a look at lots of docs and come up thinking that installing
Slackintosh on it is not really difficult but non-trivial.
First thing first you need a livecd, I'd suggest starting with gentoo-ps3
livecd as it should comes with lots of developing stuff on it (e.g. a
working toolchain ;-) ) and an usb key with the "otheros" loader.
Once you did the partitioning you can install Slackintosh packages
following the efika tutorial:
http://wiki.workaround.ch/kakiwaki/wk.jsp?P='EFIKA' which is nothing more
than ./installpkg from a separate usb disk.
At this point, you should have an unconfigured and unbootable slackintosh
on the PS3, following the previous tutorial you've to configure required
files and building a kernel (surely, the kernel-generic will not boot). I
think that a "make ps3-defconfig" will do the trick.
There're still some points left over, e.g. I don't know if you could link
against 32bit glibc, if it's not the case you'd have to rebuilt them from
the live enviroment but it shouldn't be too much trouble.
> I plan on buying one in the near future and would love to run slack on it.
Playstation3 is a nice piece of hardware to get your hands on. Not really
powerful, compared to latest n-core, but surely hackable.
I'm still planning to plan the buying :-P but I'd love to get one of
those, especially now that the 40GB version is out and should be cheaper
than the 60GB one.
ciao
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