Playstation 3 livecd beta

Luca Barbato · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 109

We are pleased to inform you that we have something that seems to work pretty fine, has nice features and is almost as good and simple as you'd expect =)

More information here

http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/ranger/2006/12/24/gentoo_ppc64_ps3_livecd_is_in_beta

Testers welcome

Probably I'll cross post it later

Raquel and Bill · Genesi Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 1280

Hi Luca, we put both posts in one thread.

Hi Folks, it looks like we need some testers, so if you can please follow the ranger's blog post for more instructions.

R&B :)
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tgall · Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/InstallGentooOnPS3

Posted here as well. Things are coming along quite nicely!

Thibaut Jeanson · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 558 Location: Paris

Gentoo LiveCd for PPC64 ? sounds good !
I suppose it's also great news for the OSW !

tgall · Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

In the case of what gentoo has it falls into a few catagories that break of model of what people might think when they think gentoo. (compile compile compile)

First the livecd is fully usable system. Boot go, run X, run firefox, run xchat.

The installcd is just that, BUT we have a full stage4 which in gentoo terms means that end user doesn't have to rebuild a thing. Take go, setup an item here and there, and there you go.

Further we nearly have fully setup a GRP server so in the future as packages are updated, you can just pull down the binaries and not have to build a thing.

Gentoo already builds all the packages optimized specifically for the processor and intend to keep up with all optimizations for cell as technologies improves. *(that means we use -mtune and -mcpu right now .. we'll take advantage of more as it shows up!)

Joshua Purcell · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Dallas

Nice work guys. I'll give this a try sometime soon and post how this goes.
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Joshua Purcell · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Dallas

The LiveCD is great, and I'm using it to do the Gentoo install to the hard drive. The only thing that caused problems in my situation was that the wireless device was not recognized, so I needed to run cable through my house into my living room :D. Not a big problem, but it would be cool for the LiveCD to recognize all hardware on the PS3 by default. Thanks for your work on this project. I'm new to Gentoo but so far I like what I see.
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Joseph Jezak · Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 32

Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no kernel support for the PS3's wifi adaptor. Until such a driver exists, there's no way for the Gentoo LiveCD to use it. :)

Joshua Purcell · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Dallas

popper · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 93

DethKnight · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 10 Location: central usa

Well, I better try this out. Give my PS3 something to do while I wait for the Q1 2k8 game titles to emerge

also of interest maybe?

http://www.mc.com/mediacenter/pressrelease.aspx?id=10454

http://www.power.org/devcon/07

LOL the instructions say to get otheros.bld from Sony and Sony instructions say to get it from OtherOS' supplier/creator.