Open Platform for PS3 - site open with instructions

[Zenien]

Sony's Open Platform for PLAYSTATION®3 website has updated with configuration details for installing another OS on your PS3.

Here's the instructions:

http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/manual.html

Basically you download the installer from that website and save it to a USB key or HDD, or CD or DVD or BD or memory stick etc. (basically any storage PS3 will recognise can be used). You have to create a folder called 'PS3' at the top level of your storage, then a subfolder called 'otheros', and place the installer in there. You place the third party bootloader for your OS in the same location (must be named 'otheros.bld'). Then just connect your storage to your PS3 and run the 'Install Other OS' utility - it will scan for the installer, and display its location. Just select that, and it will start the installation process for your OS.

Currently the site doesn't point to any third party OSes, and notes that they'll be distributed completely independently of Sony. There's a FAQ in there too.

On a related Open Platform note, PowerDeveloper.org updated its PS3 page to note that a Gentoo overlay for PS3 is in the works. Luca Barbato is looking for someone with a PS3 to test out a Gentoo image for him

http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/lu_zero/2006/11/11/playstation_3

Woke up for like no reason so I'm just posting some stuff before going back to bed.

 

[Mentok]

Does it void your warranty like replacing the HDD does?

 

[Zenien]

No, the PS3 OS is completed isolated.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

Hopefully the GentooPS3 project turns into something.

 

[Mentok]

No, the PS3 OS is completed isolated.

Cool

 

[Zenien]

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/terranz22/LinuxPS3.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e261/terranz22/ps3linuxfb1.jpg

http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html - Contains the link to get Linux on your PS3.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

Are those screenshots of Linux on PS3? Whatever happened to E17 being used? That distro is hideous, it looks like a cheap GNOME knock off. Unless it is GNOME or something

 

[Zenien]

E17 is still being used but you can put any distro on you want apparently.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

I'll put Ubuntu on my PS3 when I get one

 

[Mentok]

UBUNTU FTW.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

Ubuntu is seriously such an awesome distro. I wish more people would use it and stop tinkering around with their fedora core/suse nonsense.