cool thanks Marco, I'll definitely look into the gentoo-ps3 livecd :) On Jan 30, 2008 9:27 AM, Marco Bonetti <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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<http://wiki.workaround.ch/kakiwaki/wk.jsp?P=%27EFIKA>' > 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 > > -- > Marco Bonetti > Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://workaround.ch/ > Linux-live for powerpc: http://workaround.ch/pub/rsync/mb/linux-live/ > My webstuff: http://sidbox.homelinux.org/ > > My GnuPG key id: 0x86A91047 > > >