How to install Fedora 8 on PS3

Woo! It's out! Fedora 8 for PS3!

*A SPECIAL NOTE: If you have FW 2.10+, there will be slight problems with the kboot (Screen flashes on and off sometimes).




REQUIRMENTS:


The Fedora 8 PPC image (Direct Download link: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/ppc/iso/Fedora-8-ppc-DVD.iso

BitTorrent Link: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-8-dvd-ppc.torrent ).

The KBoot: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4hw38q

Storage Media to put the KBoot in (i.e. Memory Stick, Flash Drive, iPod (Yes!!!)), etc.

USB Keyboard and Mouse

Ethernet Broadband Connection (WiFi is too complex to get working)

A Brain.



1. Take your storage media, and create a folder called 'PS3' (w/o the quotes) on the root of it. (X:/) Then, within the PS3 folder, create an 'otheros' folder (w/o the quotes), and place the otheros.bld file there.


2. Connect your storage media to your PS3. Go to Settings>System Settings>Format Utility. From there, choose 'Format Hard Disk'. Make sure you allot 10GB to OtherOS. Do a quick format.


3. Restart. Then. go to Setting>System Settings>Install Other OS. It will then scan your storage media for the KBoot. Install it. Then, go to 'Default System' and choose OtherOS.


4. Restart. Assuming you had a USB Keyboard and mouse connected, and the Fedora 8 DVD in prior to the reboot, the KBoot will show all kinds of text. When it stops to 'kboot' and a blinking cursor, type (w.o quotes), 'linux64 text xdriver=fbdev'. Hit enter.


5. The installation wizard is starting... you get these questions:
Media check -> Choose: 'Skip' or 'OK', as you wish.
Welcome to Fedora -> Choose OK
Language Selection -> Choose your Language (e.g. English)
Keyboard Selection -> Choose your keyboard layout (e.g. us)
Partitioning Type -> Select 'Create custom layout. (select ps3da, 44940MB)

Now, create three partitions:

Mount point: Filesystem Type: Size:

/boot ext3 196MB
swap 512MB
/ ext3 'Fill all available space


5. Review the layout, and proceed with OK
Question about low memory, and enable swap? Choose 'Yes'
Ethernet configuration:
Configure eth0 ? -> yes
Activate on boot -> yes
Settings: (just as an example, depends on your local network)
Enable IPv4 support -> e.g. yes
IPv4 configuration -> DHCP
Hostname configuration -> manually -> ps3
Time zone selection -> System clock uses UTC
Zone Selection -> e.g. Europe/Amsterdam
Root password -> <imagine-something-yourself>
Package selection -> leave default, we customize later.
Installation to begin -> Press 'ok'


6. Find something to do for 65 minutes.


7. Once done, reboot. Once you reboot, you'll get the message: 'Cannot boot system after installation on a PlayStation 3'. Don't freak out.

Put back the Installation CD in the PS3 and press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.

At KBoot, type 'linux rescue'.

Next, you will get these questions:

Language Selection -> Choose your Language
Keyboard Selection -> Choose your keyboard layout (ex. US)
Network Configuration -> not necessary
Rescue screen -> Choose Continue...



8. On the command prompt, perform these actions:

sed s@'append="rhgb quiet root=LABEL=/"'@'append="video=ps3fb:mode:138 rhgb quiet

root=/dev/ps3da3"'@ /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf

> /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf.new



The videomode value to select depends on the type of screen you are using.

YUV 60Hz 1:480i 2:480p 3:720p 4:1080i 5:1080p
YUV 50Hz 6:576i 7:576p 8:720p 9:1080i 10:1080p
RGB 60Hz 33:480i 34:480p 35:720p 36:1080i 37:1080p
RGB 50Hz 38:576i 39:576p 40:720p 41:1080i 42:1080p
VESA 11:WXGA 12:SXGA 13:WUXGA

0:auto mode, full screen mode: <video mode ID> + 128, dither ON mode : <video mode ID> + 2048
(138 is thus: 1080p Full Screen PAL mode, 50Hz.)


Now type:

mv -f /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf{.new,}

Hit enter.

Then type:


cp /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf /mnt/sysimage/boot/etc/yaboot.conf

Hit Enter.



9. Remove the Fedora DVD, Type 'exit', and the system reboots...(if the system hangs on shutdown, flip the switch).

System is now booting from harddisk...

After a while, we get a text installation menu, configure here what is needed.

Once we have a login prompt, we can login either locally, or remote through SSH. Because of the screen blanking bug, I prefer to login through SSH from another Linux-box (or if you are on Windows: for example Putty.exe).


10. login as 'root' First update the system to the latest updates by typing yum -y upgrade.

If you like to start in GUI mode instead of text mode, the following line in /etc/inittab file has to be modified:

sed s@'id:3:initdefault:'@'id:5:initdefault:'@ /etc/inittab > /etc/inittab.new

Hit enter.

Then type:

mv -f /etc/inittab{.new,}


Hit enter,


After changing this line, do another reboot, and the firstboot procedure is automatically started.



11. The original Fedora 8 kernel is quite big and, due to Fedora nature, universal.
The stock Fedora 8 kernel also has a bug in it so that the screen is blanking from time to time.
So, we build an updated kernel with a minimal set of elements.

The following steps need to be taken to build a new, smaller, kernel for Fedora 8:

Install the GCC compiler toolchain and other development tools with
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Install git tooling and another required package with:

yum install git ncurses-devel
Make as normal user a build directory on the target, and change the current directory to it.
mkdir -p ~/ps3_build && cd ~/ps3_build
Download, compile and install the dtc tool (Device Tree Compiler)
git clone git://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git dtc
cd dtc
make
su (Switch to root user)
cp dtc /usr/bin/
exit

Download and extract the kernel sources at the proper location
cd ~/ps3_build/
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...71220-ADDON/src/linux-2.6.23-20071219.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-2.6.23-20071219.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.23-20071219
wget http://www.bohmer.net/ps3_stuff/smallkernel.config -O ./.config
sed s@'EXTRAVERSION ='@'EXTRAVERSION = -20071219'@ Makefile > Makefile.new
mv -f Makefile{.new,}
make oldconfig
make menuconfig (only if you need to do some special changes for your own needs)
make -j2
su (Switch to root user)
make modules_install && make install
cp .config /boot/config-2.6.23-20071219

exit
Adapt the bootloader startup files by adding the new installed kernel. Execute all these commands:
su (Switch to root user)
echo "default=custom" > /boot/etc/yaboot.conf.new
cat /boot/etc/yaboot.conf >> /boot/etc/yaboot.conf.new
cat >> /boot/etc/yaboot.conf.new << EOF
>
> image=/vmlinux-2.6.23-20071219
> label=custom
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd-2.6.23-20071219.img
> append="video=ps3fb:mode:138 rhgb quiet root=/dev/ps3da3"
>
> EOF
mv -f /boot/etc/yaboot.conf{.new,}
cp -f /boot/etc/yaboot.conf /boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf

exit
Reboot the system and we are done!




Thank God I don't have to go through all that.

 

Comments and Q's are welcome

 

What is fedora 8 and wtf does it do?

 

Linux its an Operating System simillar to Windows.

 

dose all this def work im not going though all that just to format the harddrive again it just seems like a lot of shit to do to get it to run lol

 

pomp3y, why would you quote the whole guide again?

Sorry that's just one of my annoyances... Like when people are talking to each other and they quote the whole conversation each time and with each post the quotes get bigger and bigger.

Don't you really only need to quote their last post? Well, that's my thoughts anyway.

 

yeah ok i see your piont sorry for that do you know where i can get the kboot loader for this the one it gives ya dont work

 

im having problems installing fedora 5 and/or 8. when i try 8 it says cannot find linux64 when i try to type it in kboot. fedora is suppose to be like 3 gigs but when i download it it completes at 100megs, and fedora 5 completes at 40 megs so im guessing thats the reason theres a error somewhere? i downloaded Fedora-8-ppc-DVD.iso straight from fedoras site is there other files im missing?

side note when i burn it do i just drop the Fedora-8-ppc-DVD.iso on the disk or do i open the iso and then place all files on disk? i tried both ways and still nothing

 

well i just checked the torrent file and its the correct 3 gigs so ima try that and see how it goes, to bad im on dialup this is gonna take about 3 weeks haha

 

ok I understand what Linux is but what could I do on it that I couldnt do with the reg OS? emulators or anything cool like that?

 

from what ive read on other forumns yes u can use emulators as well as watch diff types of video formats, run mozilla firefox and more. also turn games into iso files and back them up in another words save games/movies to the hd.

u can do the same thing with megabox supposenly but once i got that installed there was nothign i could do with it as it ran off disc

 

honestly I think megabox is fake/ never going to be fully released and there trying to charge money for it even though its based on linux- but back on subject linux on ps3 sounds good im bout to make my buddy put it on his ps3

 

I need some help with fedora,

I'm new on fedora I did every thing and installed it ok.

But i could not used the screen resolution 720p, when I change the setting to 720p the screen desapear.

I have sony bravia TV that can supprt up to 1080p.

Pls can any body help me on that.

Thanks.

 

i dont know much about the high def stuff, did you buy the high def cables for the ps3? other then that im not sure

 

I'm using HMDI connection.

And when I play Games or on the PS3 menu it's working fine as 1080p but when I swich to other os once the ps3 start it's starts as 576 and it stays like that.

when I change it by using "ps3videomode" if I in graphic mode can not see any thing the picture become some and there is alot of lines but when I'm not in graphic mode and change it it's ok.

 

First time ever installing Linux(or any other OS) on anything

i got as far as
8. On the command prompt, perform these actions:

sed s@'append="rhgb quiet root=LABEL=/"'@'append="video=ps3fb:mode:138 rhgb quiet

root=/dev/ps3da3"'@ /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf

> /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf.new

but it wont let me go past, ive tried many different ways. can someone tell me when to line break and what i should see after i hit enter?

thanks

 

First time ever installing Linux(or any other OS) on anything

i got as far as
8. On the command prompt, perform these actions:

sed s@'append="rhgb quiet root=LABEL=/"'@'append="video=ps3fb:mode:138 rhgb quiet

root=/dev/ps3da3"'@ /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf

> /mnt/sysimage/boot/yaboot/yaboot.conf.new

but it wont let me go past, ive tried many different ways. can someone tell me when to line break and what i should see after i hit enter?

thanks


im having the same exact problom u are having

 

Can I still use the console to play games after I do this?

 

yea

 

do i need a high-def tv for this? i have a rather 'normal' one. not widescreen, or anytying like that, large though.