[slackintosh-users] Re: Playstation 3

  • From: "Dan Pasanen" <dan.pasanen@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:31:30 -0600

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
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>
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>
>
>

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